Clarion 1978-03-03 Vol 53 No 17

Joe Keller (Al Arasim) battles his conscience, and Kate Keller (Ginny Heuer) her hope
when their son is reported missing in WWII action. His fiancee (Sue Green) is salt in
their wounds. "All My Sons" plays here March 3, 4, 7-11. LOn the inside...
"Who talks, who listens?" asks Lee, p.
Senate looks in the mirror, p. 3
Supper club reviewed, p. 6
LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER
BETHEL COLLEGE
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St. Paul, Minnesota
Bruce Olsen, editor
Holly Schmiess, news editor
Nancy Naumenko, production
Suzi Wells, copy editor
Greg Kuntz, sports editor The Clarion is published weekly
Mark Holmes, photo editor by the students of Bethel College.
editor Juan Ramos, cartoonist Letters to the editor should be sent
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THE CLARION Bethel College Vol. 53, No. 17 March 3, 1978
Council rules in favor of Bethel rezoning
by G.W. Smith
The Arden Hills Village Coun-cil
ruled last Monday, Feb. 27, in
favor of rezoning the entire
Bethel campus from R-1 (residen-tial)
to LB (light business), an im-portant
step in meeting Bethel's
building needs.
That action of the council
strengthened hopes of Bethel ad-ministrators
that two new dor-mitories
will be completed on the
Arden Hills campus in time for
occupation in the fall.
With the college now rezoned
as a light business, Bethel ad-ministrators
will appear before
the council on March 6 to apply
for building permits, receiving
final recommendation from the
council on March 13.
Administrators will begin tak-ing
bids on March 14 for con-struction
of the two dormitories
and according to Dave Lissner,
director of community relations,
construction will begin shortly
thereafter.
Originally five dormitories were
planned for occupation next fall,
but the lengthy litigation of
Northwestern College with Arden
Hills caused Bethel administrators
to await the outcome of the trial
before applying for the required
building permits.
According to Dr. Carl H. Lund-quist,
president of Bethel College,
Bethel awaited the outcome of
that trial, "lest action at Bethel
prejudice the case there."
J. Jerome Plunkett, Ramsey
County District Court Judge
presiding in the case between
Northwestern College and Arden
Hills, delivered his decision on
Thursday, Feb. 16, and ruled in
favor of the City of Arden Hills.
In the legal opinion issued
detailing his decision, Judge
Plunkett ruled that Zoning Or-dinance
No. 99 limits private col-leges
to location in limited
business districts.
"In effect this means that the
plaintiff's property (Northwestern
College) is a non-conforming use.
It may continue to exist in Arden
Hills but it may not enlarge or ex-pand
its facility," said the opinion
issued by Judge Plunkett.
When asked regarding the im-plications
of his decision with
referal to a recent precedent set
in previous cases of this nature,
Judge Plunkett denied any
knowledge of such a precedent.
William J. Hempel, the at-torney
representing Northwestern
College in the case, stated that it
was that precedent which formed
a major portion of their case.
Director of Public Affairs at
Northwestern College, Gene Kor-dick,
responded to the judge's
decision with disappointment.
"We will appeal that ruling,"
said Kordick, "and beyond that
we will study other ways and
means to achieve our objectives."
In response to the judge's rul-ing,
President Lundquist issued a
statement to the Bethel communi-ty.
"In our judgement," wrote
Lundquist, "the decision has
serious implications for the entire
educational community in Min-nesota."
As a result of Judge Plunkett's
decision, Bethel administrators
sought rezoning from residential
to light business in order to obtain
necessary building permits.
According to President Lund-quist,
"In the light of the adverse
ruling we will need to make this
zoning adjustment in order to
keep our building program mov-ing."
In the coucil meeting on Mon-day,
thirty minutes of discussion
preceded the 4-1 vote which
granted Bethel zoning.
Councilman James Wingert
questioned the "potential for a
loss of control" should Bethel be
by Terri Hanson
Every year during March,
Bethel seniors are required to
take a test in their area of concen-tration.
The test "measures the
academic ability and achievement
of college students against com-parable
national standards."
It consists of multiple choice
questions covering anything in
that particular area of concentra-tion.
Karen Hauck, from testing
and psychological services said,
"The test is completely com-prehensive.
The authors cover
everything they think is impor-tant."
According to Dr. Tricia
Brownlee, assistant to the dean,
the tests are given to see how each
department's graduates are stack-ing
up against other college
graduates in that same field na-tionally.
The results from the tests
help the administration see which
departments need to be "beefed
up," or where Bethel's weak
points are and then begin work on
them.
"The tests are a good measur-ing
device for the students," said
Karen Hauck. "It helps them
determine how much they
know—or don't know—about
rezoned to LB.
Councilman Ward M. Hanson
replied, "The opinion of the
public is that Bethel is no pro-blem."
Hanson also said that he
has not yet heard a voice speak
against Bethel College.
continued on page 2
their particular area of concentra-tion.
The tests do not, however,
help the student get into graduate
school or get a job."
Not all the departments have
such tests, among those that do
not are: anthropology, art, Bible,
drama, social work, speech or
special programs. Any senior con-centrating
in any of those depart-ments
is exempt from the testing.
Apparently, every year without
fail, several seniors protest
against the tests saying that
nowhere in the Bethel catalogue
did it list the tests as a general re-quirement
for a B.A. Unfor-tunately,
the requirement was
mistakenly left out of the present
catalogue.
The dean's office, however, is
presently working on a new
catalogue that will list the test as
general requirement for a B.A. It
will read like this: "Comprehen-sive
exam in the concentration
area during the senior year. Field
tests of the. Undergraduate Asses-ment
Program are used."
This year the tests will be given
Mon. March 13 through Wed.
March 15. All participating
seniors should have received
notes regarding the test in their
post office box.
Senior concentration exams
compare national standards
Letter to the Editor
Reps refute Clarion criticisms
council ruling
continued from page 1
Wingert seemed to consent and
said, "It seems to be the ex-peditious
way to go to rezone and
perhaps the only way to go." He
added, "I have no desire to delay
rezoning."
Councilman Charles Creighton
voiced his discontentment with
the application before the coun-cil.
"I cannot in good conscience
rezone that area as light
business."
Then Councilman Robert
Woodburn moved to table the
motion, an action which would
have further postponed progress
on the two dormitories.
After a long moment of tense,
deafening silence, the mayor
moved that the motion to table
the issue died for want of a se-cond.
A vote was then taken and
Bethel received rezoning.
Another issue still at large
relates to the looming threat of a
trade strike. According to
Lissner, this is the year for trade
unions to settle contracts.
"Historically," said Lissner,
"this has not been settled without
a strike." Lissner also mentioned
that the trade unions may take
their cue from the coal miner's
strike.
According to Burton Wessman,
vice president of business affairs,
the old campus sale was finalized
on Feb. 7, a situation requiring
additional housing.
While the future of the dor-mitories
seems skeptical, Director
of Student Affairs, Mack Net-tleton
is reassuring. According to
Nettleton, in the event that a
trade strike should prevent Bethel
from completing the building of
two new dormitories, the student
affairs office has already made
contingency plans.
The administration has con-sidered
purchasing apartments as
well as the possibility of leasing
apartments from Nob Hill.
"I'm confident," said Nettleton,
"that we'll have good housing op-tions
for Bethel students next
year."
Dear editor,
It is ironic to us that as a Bethel
student of four years your
editorial of last week criticizing
student representation at Bethel
lacked adequate and accurate in-formation
in several respects.
First of all, to infer that Student
Senate is the only avenue of stu-dent
representation ignores the
existence of student-faculty com-mittees
on which students sit side-by-
side faculty members in deter-mining
many important school
policies.
Furthermore, it is somewhat
frustrating and discouraging that
you are crying for adequate
representation for a student body
that submitted hardly enough ap-plications
to fill those committee
positions, in spite of the fact that
students do play your advocated
"voter" role on these committees,
unlike any colleges of which we
are aware.
Even though there was a good
deal of publicity on the commit-tee
openings last fall, we actually
had to recruit to get the positions
filled.
Your barely nominal approval
of the impact of the $10 social fee
was also interesting when in our
opinion it (combined with very
competent Campus Coordinators)
revolutionized the social program
at Bethel—no small accomplish-ment
in one year.
You also ignored our major ef-forts
with service day last fall; the
foreign studies committee which
is developing a foreign studies in-formation
bank, and is working
with two highly interested faculty
members; and, our extensive lob-bying
efforts to secure the sale of
the old campus.
Furthermore, to imply that the
actions of the Public Action Com-mittee
are insignificant shows a
lack of informed understanding of
the number of dedicated Senate
hours put forth on something like
the volleyball marathon. It is in-deed
a shame that you discount
the raising of $1000 for a Peruvian
medical mission as a "worthwhile
accomplishment."
In fact, it was undoubtedly
much better time spent than our
bantering back and forth in Clar-ion
columns, and will probably
be remembered much longer than
this week's Bethel Clarion.
Your request for "major
legislation" holds little if any
water when you don't take the
time and effort to engage in
specificities, probably because
you have none. To criticize thusly
without any substance shows
more a desire to create headlines
and exciting reading than to pro-vide
accurate and constructive
editorialism.
You claim also that "the ex-ecutive
committee could have
been more forceful by voicing
student opinion." Do you care to
enlighten us as to what the "stu-dent
opinion" is regarding the fee
structure? Our survey was return-ed
by less than one-third of the
students (which is better than
usual).
But regardless, in case you
were unaware, the Senate did
take a position at a meetng which
was not attended by a Clarion
writer or reported on in the
Clarion. (Now, who's apathetic?)
On Tuesday we discussed the
Senate's position with Dean
Brushaber, which essentially asks
for a compromise. We also made
very clear the mood of the stu-dent
body in our discussion.
But before we end this exciting
rebuttal, we repeat that just as
yourself, we were not apprecia-tive
of the method in which the
fee structure was "decreed." We
had received assurances of stu-dent
representation on a decision-making
board.
However, the administration
has offered its apoligies which we
are accepting. Hopefully, this
event will make available a more
viable Senate-administration
channel.
The discussions of recent
weeks also proves to us the need
for a representative student body
organization. Why would there be
so much furor if nobody cared or
wanted a Student Senate?
Tad Johnson
Mark Carlson
—editorial
`Giving spirit' eludes SMP,
despite $5 per capita ideal
"Every man shall give as he is able, acording to the blessing of the
Lord your God which He has given you." — Deut. 16:17 (NASB)
This verse became more clear to us recently when it was reported in
last week's Clarion that SMP has only been able to collect $4225 this
school year. With only two-and-one-half months left in the present
year, it seems that SMP will fall far short of their goal of $10,000.
This $10,000 figure usually covers about a third of the cost that it
takes to send out students on summer missionary projects. The remain-ing
part of their support must come from individual contributors, chur-ches
back home, or out of their own pockets. There is also the stipula-tion
that these students return to Bethel the next fall in order to con-tinue
the SMP program and to relate their experiences to other
students at Bethel.
If one were to divide this $10,000 figure among the 24 SMPers to go
out this summer, it would equal a little less than $420 per member.
That, of course, depends on whether SMP raises their full support
figure. Nevertheless, $420 does not cover much of the cost that it takes
to go to a foreign field. It may cover the air fare, but not much more.
This is not the first time that SMP has faced a financial crisis so late
in the year, but this year seems worse than most. The $10,000 giving
figure has risen little if any over the past four years.
When one considers the fact that Bethel has increased enrollment
by over 350 students over the past four years, and still have a difficult
time in raising the $10,000 figure, it shows the giving spirit at Bethel is
lacking and even getting worse.
When John Perkins came to Bethel last week, his appeal for funds
was answered with a chapel collection of over $600, and many students
were more than willing to start support groups for Voice of Calvary
ministries.
The object of this editorial will not be to decide which cause is more
important — SMP or Voice of Calvary ministries. But it seems rather
sad that a project so worthy as SMP finds it diffidult to drum up
enought support on campus to raise $250 a chapel. Students who par-ticipate
in SMP may not intend to be missionaries the rest of their lives,
but the experience they rind may help them decide the path they wish
to follow for the rest of their lives.
If every student were to give equally to SMP over the year, they
would have to give about 18 cents a chapel (based on giving one chapel
a week, as the system now works) to meet the $10,000 figure. This
would total about $5.40 per student for the entire year, a figure that
most of us find easy to spend on a single meal at a nice restaurant.
Since over $5500 remains to be collected, students must give about
$3 over the remainder of the year. With this giving plan in mind SMP
can reach their goal. Of course, this giving effort is not limited to
students. Faculty, staff and administration can also have a part in this
effort to send students to mission experiences.
It does not take much effort to pass the SMP buckets during Friday
chapel services. But isn't the extra effort of taking a dollar of 50 cents
out of one's pocket worth the end result? We believe that the final pro-duct,
a mission-oriented student, is well worth a $5 investment.
"Let each one do just as he has purposed in his heart; not grudgingly
or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver." — II Cor. 9:7
(NASB)
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"Moods" animates Rockwell;
famous piano duo in concert
MOODS: What is it?
"Moods is a variety show with an overlapping theme," said one
former producer. In the past, many themes have emerged to tie the
various modes of music, theater, and art expression together creating a
most enjoyable evening.
Themes such as "Learning Moods," "In the Mood," and "Tell Tale
Moods" have coordinated acts of dance, mime, gymnastics, ceramics,
drama, music, readings, etc. to convey a single message.
This year, the producer is Jeff Miller. Jeff is a former Bethel student
who is currently teaching beginning acting here at Bethel. He's been
planning this show since last summer, and his talent will be evident in
this production of Norman Rockwell Moods, featuring over 100
scenes coordinated with corresponding one acts, music,
dance.
Dean Palermo arranged and directs the music of a twelve piece or-chestra
especially for this occasion. We know you will not want to miss
this very special event. The cost is only one dollar...A good chance to
take that girl you've been eyeing to something really fun. You'll be sur-prised
at how many of your friends are in the production!
Bethel at Orchestra Hall: Ferrante and Teicher are coming to Or-chestra
Hall.. This is not long hair music but a very entertaining, easy
listening concert.
These two men travel all over the world playing duel pianos featuring
popular packages and show tunes as well as some all time favorites.
After this concert, we guarantee you'll be avid Ferrante and Teicher
lovers. Super seats at $5.00, regulary $6.50.
ALSO: Don't forget the ISA banquet March 11 and "All My Sons"
playing at our own experimental theater this week!
Dust blown off Senate's role,
revealing new hope, old apathy
by Suzi Wells
Since the issue about the flat-rate
tuition arose, students, in-cluding
some senators, have ques-tioned
the effectiveness of Stu-dent
Senate. Opinions range from
despair of senators (one of whom,
Dan Erickson, resigned last week)
to new hope in the credibility of
Senate. Senate advisor, Wink
Menser, believes that Senate is a
viable channel to the administration
Senate did take action last
week on the flat-rate issue, and
Mark Carlson, vice president of
the Student Association, drew up
a statement which accepted the
fee structure with two qualifica-tions.
These qualifications are: "ex-emption
from the flat-fee...
granted to petitioning students
who demonstrate...absolute
financial need for exemption,"
and also exemption from the fee
for students "under non-financial
aid extenuating circumstances."
The validity of the latter qualifica-tion
would be determined by a
committee of faculty members,
administrators and students.
Senate approved the above
proposal 14-3. Sophomore
senator Steve Hoswell said that
Senate does not represent the stu-dent
body by its decision to ac-cept
the fee structure, even with
the qualifications.
He wrote a bill, which Brad
Lewis co-signed, requesting a
meeting with Deans Brushaber
and Nettleton "to discuss the
possibility of a change in the pre-sent
structure as to allow the
Bethel Student Senate a more im-portant
role in the policy decision
making at Bethel."
Brad commented about Se-nate's
effectiveness, saying, "We
can make suggestions and try to
voice student opinion, but
basically, we're just a sounding
board."
However, other senators do not
feel that Senate is ineffective or
merely a rubber stamp of the ad-ministration.
"Compared to other
schools, we have more input into
the administration," said junior
Stephen V. Anderson. Students
at some other schools are not
even able to talk to their deans,
he pointed out.
Wink said that Bethel has two
representatives from Senate who
attend the Board of Regents
meetings. "They have the same
input as the dean and president
provided they take the initiative
to make their views heard," he
said. Neither the president or
dean have voting power, so they
are members ex-officio, as the
student representatives are.
Another way Bethel is unique
from other schools in student in-put
is in student-faculty commit-tees.
Students on these commit-tees
are able to have a voice in ad-ministrative
decisions.
Senate, however, is the official
organization that is recognized by
the administration as a liaison bet-ween
students and administra-tors.
Paul 8attige, junior senator,
also feels Senate has been effec-tive
in representing the students.
"Senate has done what it could
as far as representing the students
to the administration," he said.
He added that administrators
have to "be open to us, and in the
case of the flat fee structure, they
were open too late," althOugh
they are usually receptive to
Senate ideas.
Steve claimed that the flat fee
issue actually has given Senate
more credibility. "The input we
have in the future will be greater,"
he said. The administration, he
said, realizes the importance of
Senate and student input through
the flat fee issue.
Tad Johnson and Mark Carl-son,
president and vice president
of the Student Assoication, ex-plained
why they believe Senate
has been effective this year. Ex-amples
of its effectiveness ranged
from the institution of the activity
fee for the Campus Coordinators
to Senate's involvement with the
sale of old campus, which includ-ed
writing letters, circulating
petitons, and actually talking to
the governor's aid.
As far as Senate's effectiveness
Coordination
in representing the students,
Mark said, "Student Senate has as
much authority as the students
want to give to it—we can't con-tinually
be brainstorming." He
added that one needed to be real-istic
about Senate's purpose,
which is not to be a power
organization.
"We don't have the final say (on
major policy issues)," Mark
noted. "Most things need ad-ministrative
approval." However,
the administration does not make
decisions in regard to how the
$40,000 budget alloted to Senate
should be spent.
According to Paul and Steve,
students need to believe in the ef-fectiveness
of Senate. They
pointed out that they do their best
to represent the student, and that
students do not realize all the
responsibilities of a senator.
"Kids can't judge (Senate) not
knowing what's going on," Steve
said. It's hard, he claimed, to
represent a student body which is
basically apathetic. He and Paul
encourage students to have an in-put
by becoming involved on
student-faculty committees, at-tending
the senate meetings, and
answering Senate surveys.
Plus
by Shelly Nielsen
"Welcome to Bethel College.
Thisisachristianlearningcom-munity.
Bethelispeople. We're
pleased you could visit us for a
few hours today and hope, as
parents of prospective students,
you'll—Sir...yes, you with the
tatoo...Put out that cigarette,
please—enjoy this tour and orien-tation
talk.
"We also pray fervently the
Lord will lead you to enroll your
son or daughter here next year or
at least to make annual tax deduc-table
contributions to Bethel.
"I'll be showing you the places
of interest at this fouryear-liberalartscollege.
This is the
cafeteria and here you see the
coffee shop. That about wraps up
our tour. Any questions?
"Yes, Bethel offers numerous
forms of social activity. Frankly,
we've found that one of the
hardest adjustments students
must make is in this area of enter-tainment.
"The outside world is a jungle.
Most have slipped into the slack
and slimy secular mode. I don't
enjoy saying this, but I must:
Every one of your children has
probably, at one time or another
danced.
"Don't despair! Bethel prides
itself on rehabilitory techniques.
Send your slip-sliders to us and
we'll have them back on the
straight and narrow in a matter of
a few weeks. Satan-controlled
wills must be broken slowly.
"Bethel has stumbled onto the
perfect solution, the pacifier for
dance-hungry students. Once
they've experienced the treat of
the 12:00 to 2:00 all-school skate
they'll never lust after worldly
allures again.
"The rink is of the most respec-table
located near campus. Its at-mosphere
offers room for Chris-tian
growth and will be an ex-cellent
spiritual learning location
for your son or daughter.
"An extremely flexible dress
code allows many diverse types of
students to attend the function.
For men anything from velvet
tuxes to bermuda shorts are ac-ceptable.
Women are expected to
dress modestly. Hems, however,
must be at least Ph" from the
floor. Corsages must be fastened
securely enough to prevent their
falling off and causing massive
collisions on the area.
"Not only does skating simulate
the excitement of the big high
school bash, it also offers popular
music to skate to. Fleetwood
Mac, Linda Ronstadt, and the
Bee Gees croon over sensitive
loud speakers. No Junior Prom
presents participants with the op-portunity
of listening to such a
variety of big name entertainers
for the minimal price of $1.25.
"Every personality has some
form of expression at the roller
skating rink. The romantic may
enjoy the bold yet constructive
impetuosity of an unrehearsed
couples skate. What more
wholesomely dreamy setting than
that of a strobe-lit roller skating
rink as one glides gracefully,
tightly clasping the hand of some
magical individual?
"For the more rebellious and
carnal skater there's the
therapeutic Snowball. Can Junior
Prom compete with the mystery
and excitement of never knowing
for sure who or what one will be
skating with next? Uncertain
skaters may choose to sit on the
ledges during this event and look
aloof but available.
"After-skating socializing is
unreproachably pure. Parents in-tent
on finding suitable matches
for their offspring will be relieved
to hear that excepting only Nik
Dag dates, more couples fall in
love over early-morning plates of
hash browns at the Flameburger.
"To conclude this brief orienta-tion
to Bethel, I'd like to talk with
you for a moment about another
important aspect of the college.
Perhaps you've heard of flat rate
tuition..."
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by David Shelley
Since the day Bethel allowed dating Bethel guys have lamented over
the various excuses girls give for not going on a date (though only a
minority of Bethel guys have experience from which to speak).
Nevertheless, excuses are as time-honored a tradition as dating, and I
consulted three female RAs who helped me compile a list of favorite
excuses for not going on a date, so that girls may add them to their
repertoire, and guys may develop striking comebacks. Here is the com-pilation:
My RA told me not to date Bethel guys.
I'm in a position right now where I wouldn't feel comfortable saying
yes.
I have to clean the scum out of the tub that night.
I'm going to be sick.
I have to wash my hair.
I have to frost and tip my hair.
I have to attend to each one of my split ends individually.
I have the gift of celebacy.
I haven't had my devotions yet.
I have to refill my down vest.
I just broke our mirror and decided to stay inside.
I'm expecting a call from my mother.
I'm expecting somebody else to ask me.
I don't have any clean socks.
It's against my religion.
I thought dating' was against the Bethel lifestyle.
All my ancestors went insane when they turned 23.
I eat a lot.
I turn into a pumpkin at midnight.
I turn into a werewolf at midnight.
I turn into a bore almost immediately.
I'm on a steak and lobster diet.
I'm reading "Asher Lev."
Nobody ever asks me on a second date.
I'm giving dating up for Lent.
I already had a date this month.
I have to practice my autoharp.
Our townhouse is having a quilting bee.
I'll have to ask my mother first.
My mother told me never to go out with strangers and you're the
strangest.
I have to do my Sunday school lesson.
I have to sit up with a sick friend.
That's bath night.
I'm not very fun to be with.
You must have the wrong person.
You're not very fun to be with.
There are tornado warnings out.
I'll go if you can get a date for my roommate. She's 5-foot-3 and 340
pounds, but she's tons of fun.
My roommate has mono.
I have mono.
I hear rumors that you have mono.
Dating hinders normal degree progress.
I'm retaking the MMPI.
I never go out on the first date.
Events Calendar Friday, Mar. 3 "Moods in the gymnasium
(8 p.m.)
"All My Sons" in the experimen-tal
theatre (8 p.m.)
Saturday, Mar. 4
Sunday, Mar. 5
"All My Sons" in the experimen-tal
theatre (8 p.m.)
Men's basketball vs. St. Thomas
(7:30 p.m.)
"St. Paul" performed by the Col-lege
Choir at Mt. Olivet Luthern
Church (7 p.m.)
Monday, Mar. 6 Clarion writer's meeting (5 p.m.)
Tuesday, Mar. 7 "All My Sons" in the experimen-tal
theatre (8 p.m.)
Student Senate meeting in AC
lounge (6 p.m.)
Wednesday, Mar. 8 "All My Sons" in experimental
theatre (8 p.m.)
Thursday, Mar. 9 "All My Sons" in experimental
theatre (8 p.m.)
Ferrante and Teicher at Or-chestra
Hall (8 p.m.)
by Holly Schmiess
"The active supporters and the
active opponents are the vocal
minorities here, but the largest
number of neighbors don't care
one way or another," said Tom
Baldwin, a member of the Bethel
Neighborhood Organization, a
group of old campus homeowners
who support situating Job Corps
there.
"If you light a match, this com-munity
would explode," said Dan
Carlson, spokesman for the
Como-Falcon Heights Communi-ty
Coalition, Inc., an active group
of Job Corps opponents.
So begin the vastly different
perceptions of two groups on one
situation—a vocational school for
- poor juvenile minority members,
in a residential area. There are
many other differences.
The coalition is an incorpor-ated
group of opponents seeking
legal means to stop the center at
Bethel. They are high-profile and
vocal. The Bethel Neighborhood
Organization is not incorporated
and exists as an alternative.
"We're not setting up two oppos-ing
camps to fight it out," said
BNO member Tom Rush.
When the coalition makes a
move, especially in publicity tac-tics,
the BNO responds to counter
information they call "inaccurate
and not at all balanced by any
stretch of the imagination."
Safety is the key issue. Will it
be safe? "Yes," says the BNO;
"No," says the coalition. At the
heart of those answers are differ-ent
understandings of Job Corps
students—who will they be?
"The majority of the kids will
be placed by the court," said
Nord. The coalition feels Per-pich's
demand to exclude felons is
meaningless since a juvenile may
commit felon acts that are not
classified as such, citing cases
where rape was excused as mis-conduct.
However, Tom Rush of the
BNO said 80 to 90 per cent of the
students will have had only minor
contact, or none, with the law.
Felons who are admitted will have
probably been convicted of car
theft. "But a 17-year who's stolen
a car once is not the same as a
45-year-old felon," said Baldwin,
who teaches disaffected youths,
Coalition member Donna
Carlson, who has a degree in
criminology, objects to the Job
Corps from a professional stand-point.
She believes the proposed
ratio of staff and faculty to
students will not be adequate.
"If every kid were a felon, I
could see that," said Baldwin.
"But if less than 20 per cent have
had serious contact with the law,
140 adults will be effective."
Both groups have researched
some of the 60 Job Corps Centers
in other communities across the
United States. The coalition said
they haven't found one successful
relationship between the
neighbors and the 30 centers con-tacted.
They've collected stacks
of newspaper clippings reporting
rapes, murders, and thefts. Other
centers, they contend, are so
rurally-situated there is no com-munity
to affect.
"Sure there are some pro-blems,"
said Rush, "out of 540,000
Job Corps students in the country,
there may be 10 per cent who
cause trouble. But there are a lot
of good things happening."
The BNO cites accounts of
corps trainees helping in floods,
playing with neighborhood child-ren,
assisting senior citizens, but
feels that a case by case exchange
is not productive, and only clouds
the issue, which they say is a
moral one.
"Coalition arguments are all
smokescrrens for what is simple
prejudice against poor or black
juveniles," said Baldwin. "Saying
that just because we can afford
$50,000 homes we have a right to
exclude people from our neigh-borhood
is about as moral as the
system where, if you were rich,
you could buy your son out of the
war."
The Bethel Neighborhood Or-ganization
says families around
old campus should be "afforded
every protective device," but
shouldn't require "unnatural con-trols
we can't enforce in the
neighborhood now."
"We have a lot of kids with
juvenile records running around
our neighborhood with less super-vision
than there would be under
Job Corps," said Baldwin. "The
coalition is making unreasonable
limits on the kinds of kids who
can enroll. Pretty soon you end
up excluding the people who need
it most." ,
The coalition on the other hand
feels it's clearly a legal issue. They
claim negligence of Job Corps
regulations in the applications
procedure last May, a premature
approval by Governor Perpich,
and violation of residential zoning
laws. They're demanding an envi-ronmental
impact study, then
court appeals if all else fails.
Last week they were granted a
temporary restraining order,
when a Labor Department repre-sentative
failed to defend the
Corps' viability in the face of the
coalition's objections.
Coalition members feel duped
by Governor Perpich, because of
his unfulfilled promise to demon-strate
a successful Job Corps in an
identical neighborhood. He in-vited
coalition members along on
his search, but then went private-ly
to Phoenix, where the Job
Corps director advised him
against situating a similar center
in a residential area.
Perpich, they claim, hushed up
that advice. Shortly afterward, he
approved the Job Corps.
Rush thinks the coalition's de-mand
for proof of a working Job
Corps in an identical neighbor-hood
is unrealistic and nebulous.
"What is identical? Is having
houses on one side, bordering
Health-science majors lead a
very complicated life. Not only
must they schedule their studying
around a multitude of labs, but
after they have finished their stint
of martyrdom, they must apply to
another school for further educa-tion.
The student then opens a
Pandora's box of MCAT's,
DSAT's, MCAS's, applications in-terviews
and re-applications. To
wallow through the paperwork
and red tape makes many
wonder, "Have we missed
something?"
On Tuesday, March 7, the
Health-Careers Committee is
hosting a _banquet where profes-sionals
will be on hand to answer
questions about post-graduate
training. The meal costs only
$1.00 and starts at 5:30 p.m.
Students will be seated according
to their interests (pre-med, pre--
dent, pre-vet, med-tech,nursing).
Dr. Gerald Needham, director
of Mayo Medical School, will be
giving the evening's address.
Following Dr. Needham's
remarks, students have the op-portunity
to hear professionals
discuss "What are the qualities of
a professional in your field?" and
"What are the qualities of a Chris-tian
in your field?"
A time of open questions for
the professionals will follow the
discussion. Bethel alumni who
have ventured into these profes-sions
have also been invited to
come and share what they see as
being important preparation.
For more information concern-ing
registration please contact
either Tim Bont (341) or Mike
Messer (1006).
Certainly the time to be inform-ed
is now. We strongly encourage
all students interested in health-science
occupations to attend.
Neighbors miles apart over Corps '
settlement in old campus facilities
Health-science majors urged
to attend informative banquet
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Lee explores possibilities for decision-making
Editor's note: This is part one of a
two part series with David Lee on
organizational communications at
Bethel College. David Lee is
assistant professor of speech and
head debate coach at Bethel. He
is a doctoral candidate in organi-zational
communications at the
University of Minnesota. During
the academic year 1968-69, Dave
was student body president at
Whitworth College in Spokane,
Wash. A consultant in communi-cations
for 3M Company and
Honeywell, he conducts seminars
for other local organizations on
how to improve communication
for both the good of the organi-zation
and the individuals within
it. The Clarion talked with Mr.
Lee last week about Bethel's
strengths and weaknesses in
communication, with the recent
flat fee decision as a point of
departure.
Clarion: What are some basic
principles of good organizational
communications?
Lee: We could talk about them
for several days. One basic func-tion
of good communication is
orientation—letting people know
what's happening. In a college,
the most important source of
information for students is in-structors.
To just dump a decision
like that (the fee structure) on the
college, with faculty members as
uninformed, if not more so than
students, is really a disservice to
the institution. The administra-tors
seem to show a definite lack
of awareness of how to go about
meeting that need.
Clarion: Those are your senti-ments
as a teacher here. What
about your professional analysis
of the way it was decided?
Lee: I look at it in terms of it's
effect on the organization. By that
I mean the balance between the
organization's need for growth
and survival, and the individual's
needs within the organization.
There is a constant healthy ten-sion
there. When you're dealing
with important change, it's good
policy to explore both sets of
needs as thoroughly as possible.
The communication policies of the
college do not reflect a balance
between the organizational needs
and individual needs.
Clarion: Is study of 'empirical
data' a substitute for examining
those personal needs you speak
of?
Lee: I can't imagine that those
data are that conclusive. And I'd
like to see when that data was
collected, because increasingly
the emphasis in higher education
is on life-long study, career-development.
A good friend of mine, Dr.
Harold Miller, dean of continuing
education at the University of
Minnesota, is a fine Christian
layman, and also a fine educa-tional
administrator. Time after
time in personal conversations,
Dr. Miller says the movement of
our future will certainly be con-tinuing
life-long education.
A question he poses to Chris-tian
liberal arts colleges, as a
Christian layman and as a pro-fessional
administrator, is
whether Christian institutions will
look at those changes and adapt
their programs accordingly.
Based on what he says and
reading I have done, it seems the
move at Bethel is contrary to what
is going to be the trend in higher
education. I question it on that
basis alone, in addition to the fact
that I would doubt very much
whether the evidence is con-clusively
in favor of the full-time
student.
Clarion: The University of Min-nesota
is going to a per credit
billing system, isn't it? Is
that to regain part-time students?
Lee: I think they're interested
in other kinds of issues. Bringing
back the organization's vs. in-dividual
needs, I've been com-plimentary
of the fee structure at
Bethel because it reflects concern
for the individual student. This is
the first college I've been where
the fee structure has been
oriented for the student.
Another perspective I have is
as debate coach. People who work
intensively in our program are
benefited greatly by being able to
take only three courses. They
spend from fifteen to thirty hours
a week researching in the fall
term. That will affect only four or
five students, but students none-theless
who are contributing in an
effective way to the college
program.
Academically we've been put
on the map by such programs the
last three years. Now our de-baters
are having to readjust their
planning, perhaps cutting them
out of our program because, when
they'll have to pay full tuition,
they can't afford to not work, and
if they have to work, they don't
have time for debate.
Clarion: You mentioned orien-tation
as an important function of
good communication within an
institution like Bethel. What's
another? .
Lee: Decision-making. Com-munication
is basic to decision-making.
Good decision-making in
an organization will utilize a
range of leadership styles some-where
between autocratic and
democratic.
People in administration tend
to think of those two extremes as
the only options. Usually both are
unacceptable. But between, there
are other options available, parti-cularly
persuasive, consultative,
and participative.
Clarion: What is persuasive
decision-making?
Lee: The administration would
have fairly clearly in mind what
they'd like to do; but before
they'd implement the policy,
they'd say, "Hey, this is what
we'd like to do," and then try to
persuade the relevant organi-zational
members to going along
with it.
Last fall, Bethel's administra-tion
could have done that with the
new fee system—sent up a trial
balloon, saying "We want to go
this route, and here are the
reasons we should." Then four
months later, they could have
decided whether their persuasion
was successful.
The policy's implementation is
not contingent upon that success,
but at least the agenda is clear.
And neither are they saying
"We're going to try to convince
you, but will implement the
change anyway." That would be
autocratic, not persuasive.
Clarion: What do you mean by
`consultative' method of decision-making?
Lee: That occurs when the
administration has a specific pro-posal
to make. It's taken to
representative groups—student
members, staff, and faculty—with
a request: "This is the policy
we'd like to change, and here's
our proposal. Will you give us
some feedback?"
If I had been the dean I may not
have wanted those groups to
become committed to a certain
policy. In that case I would have
said, "After three months, give
me two good options, quite
different from one another, that
might answer this problem."
That's consultative, where I
would set the agenda, clearly
define my wishes, and give a
couple months to work on it.
Communication is still fairly con-trolled,
but the agenda is open,
and participation is permitted
back and forth.
Clarion: And finally, 'partici-pative?'
Lee: Representatives from
faculty, staff, and students actu-ally
participate in the decision. If I
were dean, I may come in advo-cating
my option, but I'm also
open to be persuaded myself.
So it's really a participation
back and forth even though I
realize I must, because of the
position I'm in, reserve the
decision. I'm open with my
agenda, wanting to get fully as
much input as possible from you.
We might talk about it two
hours a week for the next several
months. Then I take that input,
combine it with that of other key
administrators, and make the
decision. But the groups involved
at least know the considerations,
are aware of the obstacles to the
other options, and know why the
chosen option is preferable.
Clarion: There have been ele-ments
of those methods in the
flat-fee decision. There had been
some input from student leaders;
by Thangi Chhangte
Currently, there are 24 legal
aliens and approximately 53 mis-sionary
kids (MKs) studying at
Bethel. They are the ones that
make up part of the International
Students Association (I. S.A.).
Mrs. Marilyn Bohne started the
organization in 1970. Her aim was
to help foreign students with im-migration,
finances, and some-times,
understanding professors.
She was Bethel's first ISA advisor.
In 1975, Mrs. Bohne left Bethel
and Dr. David Sperry, professor
of anthropology, became the next
advisor. Then in 1976, William
(Wink) Menser, dean of men,
agreed to become an ISA advisor
since Dr. Sperry was not able to.
Officers are elected every year
and they are responsible for
organizing and planning ac-tivities.
This year, Taye Bir-machu,
sophomore, is the presi-dent
of the association, and Steve
Schwarze, junior, is the vice
president.
The other officers are: Lalrin-what
about that?
Lee: Let me say this: for good
communication to occur in an
organization, and to contribute to
the morale of the organization's
climate, communication must not
only be open, it must also appear
to be open. I'm not talking about
faking it when it isn't actually
occurring. I'm saying good com-munication
must be visible to
help either image—student's or
administration's.
Clarion: How can that be done?
Lee: If the personal com-munication
styles of key admini-strators
make those people seem
unapproachable, they need to
build in mechanisms so they
can get feedback. Some way that
protects the source—either hav-ing
it sent anonymously, or
through some other person who
represents the students or
faculty.
There should be a specific
person, available and visible, for
administrators to get that feed-back
from, if they feel somewhat
intimidated themselves. That's a
problem for some administrators
here, as it is in a way for all of us.
But if you're in administration,
you're in a more critical position.
Clarion: What happens when
an 'agenda' is supposedly esta-blished,
as indicated by the
deans' promise to provide time
for student input on the flat
fee, but is then canceled, and the
decision accelerates from the
infancy stage to finality?
Lee: That's a legitimate ques-tion.
In the infancy stages, you're
trying to pose a good question. If
that's the position they were in
fine; they needed to make sure of
a clear question to raise. But once
that's formulated, you want to get
people involved. If you set up a
procedure whereby people get
used to participating, they don't
puii Chhangte, secretary and
treasurer; Karen Swanson, social
chairman. Wink Menser is the
ISA adviser this year, also.
ISAers meet about once or
twice a month to share foods,
music and slides of foreign coun-tries.
They also have a gym night
once every month. And in winter,
ISAers go sliding and inner-tubing
on Mt. Zion.
Once every year, the ISA hosts
a banquet which is also open to
the public. This year's banquet
was held on Feb. 3, and tickets
respond with panic or shock when
something is initiated.
Clarion: Does it seem to you
that the administration lacks
built-in challengers; are there too
many `yes-men?'
Lee: My dissertation is in
organizational conflict, and one
thing is very clear—conflict is a
healthy and good source of input
and stimulus for the organization
if handled and managed properly.
The problem is that many people
in positions of administration are
not trained at all in managing
conflict, keeping it at a positive
level.
I would be very careful in
attributing a negative motive to
someone's actions, but would
instead presume that it grows
primarily out of ignorance, an
ignorance of what good organi-zational
policy is.
Clarion: You were impressed
with Carter's campaign because
of his built in advisors whom he
knew would conflict with his
opinions, weren't you?
Lee: And I think you can build
in either consultative, or more
preferable, participative man-agement,
that will allow you to
examine all the alternatives as
thoroughly as possible, and the
various costs and benefits.
Dean Brushaber does send out
what he calls "trial balloons." I
have a list of thirty from last fall.
Some we haven't followed
through on, others we've dis-cussed.
Clarion: How is that method
inadequate?
Lee: I don't think it is. But they
aren't sent out on critical matters.
I think they're sent out on rather
peripheral matters, and matters
relative to the faculty, but not to
the students.
were sold out a week before. The
theme for the evening was "Praise
the Lord All Ye Lands."
Another banquet will be held
on March 11, due to popular de-mand.
The program will be
similar to the first banquet, but
the menu will be different.
Tickets are three dollars for
students and $3.50 for adults.
ISA members encourage Be-thel
students and friends to go to
the banquet, not just for the ex-otic
food but also for cultural en-counters
of the best kind.
ISA provides foreign student
aid, understanding, activities
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Stuart Briscoe, author, lecturer, challenged Tuesday's
chapel audience to know God as Lord.
Mike Emerson and Scott Larson take time to savor their
debate team's fine showing at the past weekend tourna-ment
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Christian supper club lacks polish
retains novelty to evangelicals
by Dale Peterson
Up until this year, if one
wanted to spend an evening hav-ing
dinner in a restaurant where
the waiters are Christians and no
liquor is served, and then see a
play directed by Doug Briggs,
one's only choice would have
been the Royal Oak Room and
the experimental theatre at Bethel
College. Now, thanks to Herald's
Christian Supper Club, it isn't that
way anymore.
On New Year's Eve, opening
night, club owner Harold Vogel
had to turn away over 100 would-be
customers. It seemed obvious
then, that a supper club of this
kind was just what suburban
evangelicals were waiting for.
Herald's is one of but a handful
of Christian supper clubs in
America. Its uniqueness was
underscored recently by NBC
television, which found the idea
of a Christian supper club
newsworthy enough to be
featured on the Today Show.
The food at Herald's is certain-ly
worthy of at least local recogni-tion.
The featured item, which
was supposed to be thinly sliced
beef, was really a generous slice
of top grade sirloin covered with a
delectable mixture of
mushrooms, onions and other
vegetables.
The filet mignon, while at least
two ounces smaller than other
supper club's filets, is as savory
as any. Both meats were broiled
precisely to order and the service
was prompt and courteous.
"The Fable of the Brementown
Four," a play written by Doug
Briggs and performed by
members of "In the Spirit
Ministries" was the entertainment
for the evening. The play has
been performed at various chur-ches
in the area over the past few
years, however, the performance
at Herald's was the first in over 14
months.
The players were vivacious and
exciting and their movements
were precise. The songs that the
players sang before and after the
show were well done and the
selection was appropriate.
Viewed separately, both the
dinner and the performance
would gain the approval of any
guest, but the synthesis of the two
was indeed poor.
The play was introduced by the
restaurant hostess, who possessed
all the self-confidence and stage
presence of a third grader ner-vously
announcing a Christmas
play.
Her preparation did not even
include learning the name of the
group she was to introduce! (She
had to obviously refer to her note
card after an uncomfortable
pause). Such behavior may be
tolerable for a third grader, but is
absolutely inexcusable for the
emcee of a sppper club.
This disrespect for the perfor-mance
was shared by the
waitresses as well. For some
unknown reason they found it
necessary to bus the dishes during
the performance.
Judging by the fact that there
were no programs and our menu
suggested non-alcoholic drinks to
enjoy during the "inspirational
concert" I would say that Herald's
was unprepared, at least, to host a
dramatic presentation.
While Herald's may be a God-send
for Christians in Edina, I
would still recommend the Royal
Oak Room and the experimental
theatre for Bethel College
students.
Lynn Erickson, from
Chisholm, Minn., will be
presenting her senior
trumpet recital Monday,
March 8 at 8 p.m. in the
Bethel Seminary chapel.
Lynn is a senior music ma-jor
and is studying with
Charles Schlueter, prin-cipal
trumpet of the Min-nesota
Orchestra.
Program selections in-clude
pieces by Honneger,
Hindemith, Scarlatti and
Hummel.
The music department
extends an invitation to the
Bethel community to at-tend
this recital and also
the reception following.
There is no admission
charge.
debate
Debate team
despite stiff
by David Terpstra
Amid some tough competition
this past weekend, the Bethel
College debate team placed
fourth out of 46 schools compet-ing
at the University of Nebraska
in Lincoln. The novice, junior,
and varsity squads all went 3-3 in
their individual team efforts.
David Lee, the debate advisor,
remarked that "the main problem
was the tough competition we en-countered
at this meet." He fur-ther
stressed that Bethel does
have "some really good peo-ple.
But when we run up against
the various large universities, the
competition becomes more diffi-cult."
Individually, two persons did
very well. Ira King placed second
in oratory and fourth in oral inter-pretation,
while Pam Linamen
missed the finals by one point.
places fourth
competition
Their advisor seems optimistic re-garding
the team's chances in fu-ture
competition.
The team basically uses two
techniques in their practice ses-sions.
One method includes hold-ing
practice debate rounds while
the coaches offer advice and feed-back
to them. The second method
is where the individual teams take
their proposals and look at them
from the opposite team's stand-point,
thereby gaining fresh in-sight
into the issue.
This weekend, the debate team
will compete at the University of
Wisconsin in Whitewater. Later
on. Coach Bill Fraatz and team
Scott Larson-Mike Emerson will
go to the University of Southern
Connecticut. After that, the
district competition begins the
third week in March, and the na-tionals
begin the first week in
April.
Chapel Schedule
Monday — Paul Manz,
mini-hymn festival
Tuesday — Senate candi-date
speeches
Wednesday — Dr. Dan Ful-ler,
Fuller Seminary
Thursday — Nicholas Wal-dersdorf,
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Former Iowa stars
Anderson, Martin
end Royal careers
on positive note
by Greg Kuntz
The state of Iowa has been
known for a long time (besides
corn fields) for their brand of fe-male
basketball. Two of them, se-niors
Gail Anderson, a 5'6"
guard/forward from Shell Rock,
and Cindy "C.M." Martin, a
5'7" forward from Lisbon, re-flected
recently on their past four
years on the squad at Bethel.
Bethel ended this competitive
season with an 11-7, record.
Gail was the scrapper on the
squad this season driving to the
basket on several occasions and
came up with several steals on
defense. She probably handled
the ball more than anyone.
"This season I worked a lot on
driving and my outside shot," she
said.
Cindy, known as "C.M.", end-ed
up as one of the Royals'
leading scorers, in spite of her ill-ness
and injuries through part of
this season.
"Kathy (the coach) always told
us that it can be done and you can
do it, so I always tried to remem-ber
that when I was in the game,"
she said.
Both acknowledged that they
have greatly enjoyed the unity of
the team.
Gail said, "In four years of col-lege
ball I've experienced a spe-cial
unity on the team; the kind
we all have in Christ. There's
been a real sense of caring among
individuals."
"I've learned that I can't do it
myself—I need to rely on Christ,"
said Cindy.
continued from page 4
three sides, or a fair ground
across the street?" he asked.
The BNO says Crystal Springs,
Miss., and San Jose, Calif. are
residential sites similar to Falcon
Heights, with houses across the
street.
Baldwin adds that the Falcon
Heights community is really only
50 per cent residential by area,
and lists the businesses in a one-mile
radius: "A major university
campus, three shopping centers,
an enormous housing develop-ment
for students, five
warehouses, a bus garage, a ma-jor
railroad switching yard,
experimental farmland, and two
golf courses. That's not residen-tial."
The coalition says the business-es
that now exist will suffer.
"Lido's" has threatened to relocate
if the center moves in, they claim,
and inferior businesses such as a
foosball arcade will cater to
juveniles. Prospective home-buyers
have shied away, also,
because of the imminent new in-stitution.
The BNO says the coaltion has
brought these penalties upon
themselves through scare tactics
such as a circular that begins, "If
you have a weak heart, don't read
on.
The two groups have never had
head-on exchange. Rush feels the
coalition disbelieves any sources
of information except themselves
(including Bethel and the Labor
Department), and that negates at-tempts
at open-minded discus-sion.
"We don't have the right to pro-tect
our investments, whether
they be businesses or our homes,
at the cost of suppressing other
people," said Baldwin.
"That's the cost of civilization,"
he added. "This isn't Black Dtick,
Minn.; it's St. Paul. This is a big
city, and a big city needs to use all
it's resources to help it's people.
We have that resource."
Institute seminar
seeks to promote
growth in maturity
A group of 1100, primarily
composed of students, will attend
the month-long 1978 Institute on
Discipleship and Apologetics this
summer.
The institute, featuring some of
the nation's leading spokesmen
on the vital subjects of Christian
disciple building and apoligetics,
will be held at Western Kentucky
University, Bowling Green, June
11 - July 8.
The objective of the con-ference
is to balance an
understanding of the certainty of
Christian truth with an orderly
and loving approach to making
disciples. It seeks to promote
growth in maturity and
knowledge while helping Chris-tians
give intellectual answers in
love.
Participants include noted
theologian Carl F.H. Henry and
Professors Roger Nicole of
Gordon-Conwell Seminary; Gary
Collins and Norman Geisler of
Trintiy Evangelical Divintiy
School, Howard Hendricks of
Dallas Seminary and Donald Chit-tick
of George Fox College.
Jim Williams of Probe
Ministries, Josh McDowell of
Campus Crusade, Ray Stedman of
Peninsula Bible Church, Palo
Alto, CA and Carl W. Wilson,
president of Worldwide
Discipleship Association com-plete
the slate.
The institute is sponsored by
the Atlanta-based Worldwide
Discipleship Association in
cooperation with Western Ken-by
Greg Kuntz
The Royals lost an early seven-point
lead as St. Thomas, using a
fast break, tallied a 79-65 victory
at O'Shaughnessy Hall last Satur-day
afternoon. Sophomore for-ward
Scott Kajer led in scoring
with 23 points and freshman
center Bob Walsh added 17 for
the second place Tommies.
"Sugar Ray" Miller was once
again high-point man for the
Royals with 16, and junior guard
Greg Peterson had his highest
scoring game of the season with
14.
St. Thomas turned around the
early deficit when Bethel was in
command to take a 29-20 lead, but
tucky University. The four-week
conference is divided into two-week
segments, each stressing the
dual theme of personal
discipleship and disciple building
and biblical apologetics.
The format is geared for
students, seminarians, pastors
then the Royals again began to
turn on and closed the gap to
three with just over two minutes
to go in the first half.
The Royals were plagued by
turnovers in the second half and
were down quickly by nine. The
Tommies man-to-man defense
coupled with some sparkling fast
breaks built the lead to 13 about
midway through the half.
No one fouled out in the con-test,
but the Royals were whistled
for 17 team fouls to St. Thomas'
10.
Tommies' Coach Tom Feely,
now in his 24th season, said,
"Our four corner and diamond of-fense
opened things up and when
our guards got our fast break
going, that broke the game open
and lay workers, with three
semester-hours of credit being of-fered
by the university.
Anyone desiring information
locally should contact:
Worldwide Discipleship Associa-tion
1001 Virginia Ave., Suite
315, Atlanta, GA. 30354.
for us."
St. Thomas has high hopes for
the post-season playoffs, but
Coach Feely thought it would be
unlikely to catch St. John's for the
MIAC title.
Bethel closes the 1977-78 sea-son
at home tomorrow afternoon
when they meet St. Thomas
again. The tip-off time is 3 p.m.
"Bethel has a nice shooting
ball club and they'll give us prob-lems
when we go over there,"
said Coach Feely.
Tommies turn back cagers with
second half scoring spurt, 79-65
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T.K. pins too confident Tommy's shot while Curt Oslin looks on.
Pre-season favorite 'Probes'
remains undefeated in IM action
Hockey club drops season
finale to St. Olaf, 6-4
by Steve Erickson
Bethel ended its hockey season
last Friday on a sour note, falling
to St. Olaf 6-4. The club finished
with a 10-8 mark.
The game was a physical one,
with each team spending its share
of time in the penalty box. St.
Olaf incurred 40 minutes of
penalties while Bethel had 30.
St. Olaf broke the game open
with a pair of goals midway
through the second period. Bill
Lynch knocked in a rebound at
12:00. Ninety seconds later Dave
Ario stole the puck and drilled it
past goalie George Fraser to
make it 4-2 St. Olaf. Ario had
four goals for the night.
Gregg Correll narrowed the
score to 4-3 on a shot from the
slot. Two more goals by Ario and
one by Bethel's Tom Correll
finished the scoring. Tom Correll
led the Royals with two goals and
one assist.
Bethel, outshot 32-26, was not
as deep as St. Olaf, thus, tiring
more easily. Bethel Coach Dave
Harris said, "We had a lot of
penalties so our first line was on
the ice a .lot, killing them."
"We just didn't have the kind of
shots we needed in the end. We
couldn't catch up," said Coach
Harris.
For the season, Tom Correll
was the leading scorer. He tallied
13 goals and 14 assists for 27
points. Fred Hage had 17 goals
and 3 assists. Third leading scorer
was John Selvog who was credited
with 7 goals and 10 assists.
A Bethel Hockey player attempts to elude his St. Olaf shadow.
The Family' outshoots 'Curls'
for broomball championships
by Rob Haglund
Pre-season favorite Probes-
Chapter Two kept their
unblemished record intact with a
67-56 win over Who Cares in re-cent
IM basketball action. Greg
Nelson led Probes with 25 points
while Dave Mild tossed in 15 for
the losers.
In other games, Steve Kramka
scored 15 points, 13 in the second
half, to lead Weightroom
Woosies to a 57-44 win over Doc's
and Joc's. Scott Engstrom led the
Joc's with 12 markers. The
Rotors, behind Chester Mont-gomery's
18 points edged Beef
Jerky 40-36. Jay Alvin added 17
points for the winners.
In B league action Arnel Oil
bombed Jack's Rabbits 68-34.
Tim Trout poured home 35 points
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for the winners to lead IM scoring
this week while Dave Johnson
canned 11 for the Rabbits.
Rick Alvarez and Ron Hanson
hooped 14 points apiece as the
Not Ready For B League Players
zapped Star Wars 43-35. Star
Wars' Dave Christiansen led all
scorers with 19 points.
NBA dumped the 5 per centers
34-29 behind Steve Carrigan's 24
points and 6 Feet Under mugged
All The President's Men 74-41
with Dave Fernland scoring 27
points for the winners.
NHS topped the Bengals 51-27
with newly-acquired transfer Brad
Staurseth canning 14 markers.
The Bengals' Jim Skoglund drop-ped
in 14 points also.
IM games have been drawing
some nice crowds. If you haven't
been to a game yet, you might
want to stop by the gym and
watch the fast-paced action. In A
league action tomorrow Doc's
and Joc's and the Buckwheats
square off at noon.
Probes takes on True Grunt
and Who Cares meets The Gang
at 1 p.m. tomorrow. Weightroom
Woosies will play Beef Jerky and
the Thugs and Rotors will go at it
at 2 p.m. Seven games are
featured in B league action
tomorrow morning.
The Thugs meet the Rabbits
and NHS plays ATPM at 9 a.m.
Games scheduled for 10 a.m. are
the Mob vs. the Bengals and
Bergland's Bongos vs. the 5 per
centers.
The Fly Girls will meet
NR4BLP's and Richie Vallenz Jr.
High plays Star Wars at 11 a.m.
The rumble between the NBA
and the Decomposers is schedul-ed
for noon.
by Thangi Chhangte
The co-ed broomball season
began the third week of interim.
There were eleven teams in the
broomball league. According to
Dana Olson, broomball was the
highlight of interim.
The Family, Brad Nelson's
team, won the league, followed
by freshman Molly Whiteneck's
team, The Washling Festivalers.
The Butchers, led by Steve
Fredine, senior, were third.
For those who have no idea
what broomball is all about, here
is a brief description. Broomball
is a game played on ice, and is
similar to hockey. The object of
the game is to get a deflated
volleyball into the opponent's
goal, using a broom. Broomball
players wear regular shoes or
special broomball shoes.
The Family won nine out of ten
games and tied one with the
Icebreakers. The team also had
the league's highest scorer,
sophomore Peter Nelson. He
scored 10 goals.
Brad, a junior, said they had
by Lisa Mills
Senior Dave Clapp took sixth in
the nation in the 1,000-yard run at
the NAIA indoor championships
last Friday in Kansas City. His
time was 2:18.6.
Clapp became the first Bethel
student to make it through finals
at a national level. There were
originally 27 running in the 1,000,
and after three qualifying heats
only eight made it to the finals.
successful team because of their
goalie Paul Jepsen, junior, and
also because of their "determined
defense and aggressive offense."
He also praised the girls on his
team for not being afraid of being
aggressive. "Val Pasma and
Karen Stake had the most color-ful
knees," he said, refering to
their bruises. He also -com-mended
Greg Peterson and Bill
Ostlund, both juniors, for their
contribution of goals. Bill had a
hat trick (three goals) on the first
game of the season.
Brad thinks his team did well
this year, but "we're going to win
them all next season," he declared
confidently.
The Butchers beat The Curls
three to two, on Thursday, Jan.
23. It was the last game of the
season and was played with the
lights out. Paul Johnson, captain
of The Curls, thinks his team lost
because. they could not see pro-perly.
Not everyone wins. An irate
Stu Johnson challenges humble
Brad Nelson to a one to one
match with a toothpick and a life
s,.ver.
Clapp had the third fastest time
going into the final heat.
Curt Brown, also a senior,
made it to the quarter finals in the
600-yard run. Jim Timp and Nate
Allen also competed, running in
the mile and 440-yard run respec-tively.
The top three winners will be
named All-American, and fourth,
fifth, and sixth runners are con-sidered
All-American honorable
mention.
Clapp finishes sixth in
NAIA indoor track finals

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THE CLARION Bethel College Vol. 53, No. 17 March 3, 1978
Council rules in favor of Bethel rezoning
by G.W. Smith
The Arden Hills Village Coun-cil
ruled last Monday, Feb. 27, in
favor of rezoning the entire
Bethel campus from R-1 (residen-tial)
to LB (light business), an im-portant
step in meeting Bethel's
building needs.
That action of the council
strengthened hopes of Bethel ad-ministrators
that two new dor-mitories
will be completed on the
Arden Hills campus in time for
occupation in the fall.
With the college now rezoned
as a light business, Bethel ad-ministrators
will appear before
the council on March 6 to apply
for building permits, receiving
final recommendation from the
council on March 13.
Administrators will begin tak-ing
bids on March 14 for con-struction
of the two dormitories
and according to Dave Lissner,
director of community relations,
construction will begin shortly
thereafter.
Originally five dormitories were
planned for occupation next fall,
but the lengthy litigation of
Northwestern College with Arden
Hills caused Bethel administrators
to await the outcome of the trial
before applying for the required
building permits.
According to Dr. Carl H. Lund-quist,
president of Bethel College,
Bethel awaited the outcome of
that trial, "lest action at Bethel
prejudice the case there."
J. Jerome Plunkett, Ramsey
County District Court Judge
presiding in the case between
Northwestern College and Arden
Hills, delivered his decision on
Thursday, Feb. 16, and ruled in
favor of the City of Arden Hills.
In the legal opinion issued
detailing his decision, Judge
Plunkett ruled that Zoning Or-dinance
No. 99 limits private col-leges
to location in limited
business districts.
"In effect this means that the
plaintiff's property (Northwestern
College) is a non-conforming use.
It may continue to exist in Arden
Hills but it may not enlarge or ex-pand
its facility," said the opinion
issued by Judge Plunkett.
When asked regarding the im-plications
of his decision with
referal to a recent precedent set
in previous cases of this nature,
Judge Plunkett denied any
knowledge of such a precedent.
William J. Hempel, the at-torney
representing Northwestern
College in the case, stated that it
was that precedent which formed
a major portion of their case.
Director of Public Affairs at
Northwestern College, Gene Kor-dick,
responded to the judge's
decision with disappointment.
"We will appeal that ruling,"
said Kordick, "and beyond that
we will study other ways and
means to achieve our objectives."
In response to the judge's rul-ing,
President Lundquist issued a
statement to the Bethel communi-ty.
"In our judgement," wrote
Lundquist, "the decision has
serious implications for the entire
educational community in Min-nesota."
As a result of Judge Plunkett's
decision, Bethel administrators
sought rezoning from residential
to light business in order to obtain
necessary building permits.
According to President Lund-quist,
"In the light of the adverse
ruling we will need to make this
zoning adjustment in order to
keep our building program mov-ing."
In the coucil meeting on Mon-day,
thirty minutes of discussion
preceded the 4-1 vote which
granted Bethel zoning.
Councilman James Wingert
questioned the "potential for a
loss of control" should Bethel be
by Terri Hanson
Every year during March,
Bethel seniors are required to
take a test in their area of concen-tration.
The test "measures the
academic ability and achievement
of college students against com-parable
national standards."
It consists of multiple choice
questions covering anything in
that particular area of concentra-tion.
Karen Hauck, from testing
and psychological services said,
"The test is completely com-prehensive.
The authors cover
everything they think is impor-tant."
According to Dr. Tricia
Brownlee, assistant to the dean,
the tests are given to see how each
department's graduates are stack-ing
up against other college
graduates in that same field na-tionally.
The results from the tests
help the administration see which
departments need to be "beefed
up," or where Bethel's weak
points are and then begin work on
them.
"The tests are a good measur-ing
device for the students," said
Karen Hauck. "It helps them
determine how much they
know—or don't know—about
rezoned to LB.
Councilman Ward M. Hanson
replied, "The opinion of the
public is that Bethel is no pro-blem."
Hanson also said that he
has not yet heard a voice speak
against Bethel College.
continued on page 2
their particular area of concentra-tion.
The tests do not, however,
help the student get into graduate
school or get a job."
Not all the departments have
such tests, among those that do
not are: anthropology, art, Bible,
drama, social work, speech or
special programs. Any senior con-centrating
in any of those depart-ments
is exempt from the testing.
Apparently, every year without
fail, several seniors protest
against the tests saying that
nowhere in the Bethel catalogue
did it list the tests as a general re-quirement
for a B.A. Unfor-tunately,
the requirement was
mistakenly left out of the present
catalogue.
The dean's office, however, is
presently working on a new
catalogue that will list the test as
general requirement for a B.A. It
will read like this: "Comprehen-sive
exam in the concentration
area during the senior year. Field
tests of the. Undergraduate Asses-ment
Program are used."
This year the tests will be given
Mon. March 13 through Wed.
March 15. All participating
seniors should have received
notes regarding the test in their
post office box.
Senior concentration exams
compare national standards
Letter to the Editor
Reps refute Clarion criticisms
council ruling
continued from page 1
Wingert seemed to consent and
said, "It seems to be the ex-peditious
way to go to rezone and
perhaps the only way to go." He
added, "I have no desire to delay
rezoning."
Councilman Charles Creighton
voiced his discontentment with
the application before the coun-cil.
"I cannot in good conscience
rezone that area as light
business."
Then Councilman Robert
Woodburn moved to table the
motion, an action which would
have further postponed progress
on the two dormitories.
After a long moment of tense,
deafening silence, the mayor
moved that the motion to table
the issue died for want of a se-cond.
A vote was then taken and
Bethel received rezoning.
Another issue still at large
relates to the looming threat of a
trade strike. According to
Lissner, this is the year for trade
unions to settle contracts.
"Historically," said Lissner,
"this has not been settled without
a strike." Lissner also mentioned
that the trade unions may take
their cue from the coal miner's
strike.
According to Burton Wessman,
vice president of business affairs,
the old campus sale was finalized
on Feb. 7, a situation requiring
additional housing.
While the future of the dor-mitories
seems skeptical, Director
of Student Affairs, Mack Net-tleton
is reassuring. According to
Nettleton, in the event that a
trade strike should prevent Bethel
from completing the building of
two new dormitories, the student
affairs office has already made
contingency plans.
The administration has con-sidered
purchasing apartments as
well as the possibility of leasing
apartments from Nob Hill.
"I'm confident," said Nettleton,
"that we'll have good housing op-tions
for Bethel students next
year."
Dear editor,
It is ironic to us that as a Bethel
student of four years your
editorial of last week criticizing
student representation at Bethel
lacked adequate and accurate in-formation
in several respects.
First of all, to infer that Student
Senate is the only avenue of stu-dent
representation ignores the
existence of student-faculty com-mittees
on which students sit side-by-
side faculty members in deter-mining
many important school
policies.
Furthermore, it is somewhat
frustrating and discouraging that
you are crying for adequate
representation for a student body
that submitted hardly enough ap-plications
to fill those committee
positions, in spite of the fact that
students do play your advocated
"voter" role on these committees,
unlike any colleges of which we
are aware.
Even though there was a good
deal of publicity on the commit-tee
openings last fall, we actually
had to recruit to get the positions
filled.
Your barely nominal approval
of the impact of the $10 social fee
was also interesting when in our
opinion it (combined with very
competent Campus Coordinators)
revolutionized the social program
at Bethel—no small accomplish-ment
in one year.
You also ignored our major ef-forts
with service day last fall; the
foreign studies committee which
is developing a foreign studies in-formation
bank, and is working
with two highly interested faculty
members; and, our extensive lob-bying
efforts to secure the sale of
the old campus.
Furthermore, to imply that the
actions of the Public Action Com-mittee
are insignificant shows a
lack of informed understanding of
the number of dedicated Senate
hours put forth on something like
the volleyball marathon. It is in-deed
a shame that you discount
the raising of $1000 for a Peruvian
medical mission as a "worthwhile
accomplishment."
In fact, it was undoubtedly
much better time spent than our
bantering back and forth in Clar-ion
columns, and will probably
be remembered much longer than
this week's Bethel Clarion.
Your request for "major
legislation" holds little if any
water when you don't take the
time and effort to engage in
specificities, probably because
you have none. To criticize thusly
without any substance shows
more a desire to create headlines
and exciting reading than to pro-vide
accurate and constructive
editorialism.
You claim also that "the ex-ecutive
committee could have
been more forceful by voicing
student opinion." Do you care to
enlighten us as to what the "stu-dent
opinion" is regarding the fee
structure? Our survey was return-ed
by less than one-third of the
students (which is better than
usual).
But regardless, in case you
were unaware, the Senate did
take a position at a meetng which
was not attended by a Clarion
writer or reported on in the
Clarion. (Now, who's apathetic?)
On Tuesday we discussed the
Senate's position with Dean
Brushaber, which essentially asks
for a compromise. We also made
very clear the mood of the stu-dent
body in our discussion.
But before we end this exciting
rebuttal, we repeat that just as
yourself, we were not apprecia-tive
of the method in which the
fee structure was "decreed." We
had received assurances of stu-dent
representation on a decision-making
board.
However, the administration
has offered its apoligies which we
are accepting. Hopefully, this
event will make available a more
viable Senate-administration
channel.
The discussions of recent
weeks also proves to us the need
for a representative student body
organization. Why would there be
so much furor if nobody cared or
wanted a Student Senate?
Tad Johnson
Mark Carlson
—editorial
`Giving spirit' eludes SMP,
despite $5 per capita ideal
"Every man shall give as he is able, acording to the blessing of the
Lord your God which He has given you." — Deut. 16:17 (NASB)
This verse became more clear to us recently when it was reported in
last week's Clarion that SMP has only been able to collect $4225 this
school year. With only two-and-one-half months left in the present
year, it seems that SMP will fall far short of their goal of $10,000.
This $10,000 figure usually covers about a third of the cost that it
takes to send out students on summer missionary projects. The remain-ing
part of their support must come from individual contributors, chur-ches
back home, or out of their own pockets. There is also the stipula-tion
that these students return to Bethel the next fall in order to con-tinue
the SMP program and to relate their experiences to other
students at Bethel.
If one were to divide this $10,000 figure among the 24 SMPers to go
out this summer, it would equal a little less than $420 per member.
That, of course, depends on whether SMP raises their full support
figure. Nevertheless, $420 does not cover much of the cost that it takes
to go to a foreign field. It may cover the air fare, but not much more.
This is not the first time that SMP has faced a financial crisis so late
in the year, but this year seems worse than most. The $10,000 giving
figure has risen little if any over the past four years.
When one considers the fact that Bethel has increased enrollment
by over 350 students over the past four years, and still have a difficult
time in raising the $10,000 figure, it shows the giving spirit at Bethel is
lacking and even getting worse.
When John Perkins came to Bethel last week, his appeal for funds
was answered with a chapel collection of over $600, and many students
were more than willing to start support groups for Voice of Calvary
ministries.
The object of this editorial will not be to decide which cause is more
important — SMP or Voice of Calvary ministries. But it seems rather
sad that a project so worthy as SMP finds it diffidult to drum up
enought support on campus to raise $250 a chapel. Students who par-ticipate
in SMP may not intend to be missionaries the rest of their lives,
but the experience they rind may help them decide the path they wish
to follow for the rest of their lives.
If every student were to give equally to SMP over the year, they
would have to give about 18 cents a chapel (based on giving one chapel
a week, as the system now works) to meet the $10,000 figure. This
would total about $5.40 per student for the entire year, a figure that
most of us find easy to spend on a single meal at a nice restaurant.
Since over $5500 remains to be collected, students must give about
$3 over the remainder of the year. With this giving plan in mind SMP
can reach their goal. Of course, this giving effort is not limited to
students. Faculty, staff and administration can also have a part in this
effort to send students to mission experiences.
It does not take much effort to pass the SMP buckets during Friday
chapel services. But isn't the extra effort of taking a dollar of 50 cents
out of one's pocket worth the end result? We believe that the final pro-duct,
a mission-oriented student, is well worth a $5 investment.
"Let each one do just as he has purposed in his heart; not grudgingly
or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver." — II Cor. 9:7
(NASB)
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Latest be-bop casualty, Martha Leander, after disastrous
two-step attempt.
Strobe-lit rinks teem
with reformed be-bop
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"Moods" animates Rockwell;
famous piano duo in concert
MOODS: What is it?
"Moods is a variety show with an overlapping theme," said one
former producer. In the past, many themes have emerged to tie the
various modes of music, theater, and art expression together creating a
most enjoyable evening.
Themes such as "Learning Moods," "In the Mood," and "Tell Tale
Moods" have coordinated acts of dance, mime, gymnastics, ceramics,
drama, music, readings, etc. to convey a single message.
This year, the producer is Jeff Miller. Jeff is a former Bethel student
who is currently teaching beginning acting here at Bethel. He's been
planning this show since last summer, and his talent will be evident in
this production of Norman Rockwell Moods, featuring over 100
scenes coordinated with corresponding one acts, music,
dance.
Dean Palermo arranged and directs the music of a twelve piece or-chestra
especially for this occasion. We know you will not want to miss
this very special event. The cost is only one dollar...A good chance to
take that girl you've been eyeing to something really fun. You'll be sur-prised
at how many of your friends are in the production!
Bethel at Orchestra Hall: Ferrante and Teicher are coming to Or-chestra
Hall.. This is not long hair music but a very entertaining, easy
listening concert.
These two men travel all over the world playing duel pianos featuring
popular packages and show tunes as well as some all time favorites.
After this concert, we guarantee you'll be avid Ferrante and Teicher
lovers. Super seats at $5.00, regulary $6.50.
ALSO: Don't forget the ISA banquet March 11 and "All My Sons"
playing at our own experimental theater this week!
Dust blown off Senate's role,
revealing new hope, old apathy
by Suzi Wells
Since the issue about the flat-rate
tuition arose, students, in-cluding
some senators, have ques-tioned
the effectiveness of Stu-dent
Senate. Opinions range from
despair of senators (one of whom,
Dan Erickson, resigned last week)
to new hope in the credibility of
Senate. Senate advisor, Wink
Menser, believes that Senate is a
viable channel to the administration
Senate did take action last
week on the flat-rate issue, and
Mark Carlson, vice president of
the Student Association, drew up
a statement which accepted the
fee structure with two qualifica-tions.
These qualifications are: "ex-emption
from the flat-fee...
granted to petitioning students
who demonstrate...absolute
financial need for exemption,"
and also exemption from the fee
for students "under non-financial
aid extenuating circumstances."
The validity of the latter qualifica-tion
would be determined by a
committee of faculty members,
administrators and students.
Senate approved the above
proposal 14-3. Sophomore
senator Steve Hoswell said that
Senate does not represent the stu-dent
body by its decision to ac-cept
the fee structure, even with
the qualifications.
He wrote a bill, which Brad
Lewis co-signed, requesting a
meeting with Deans Brushaber
and Nettleton "to discuss the
possibility of a change in the pre-sent
structure as to allow the
Bethel Student Senate a more im-portant
role in the policy decision
making at Bethel."
Brad commented about Se-nate's
effectiveness, saying, "We
can make suggestions and try to
voice student opinion, but
basically, we're just a sounding
board."
However, other senators do not
feel that Senate is ineffective or
merely a rubber stamp of the ad-ministration.
"Compared to other
schools, we have more input into
the administration," said junior
Stephen V. Anderson. Students
at some other schools are not
even able to talk to their deans,
he pointed out.
Wink said that Bethel has two
representatives from Senate who
attend the Board of Regents
meetings. "They have the same
input as the dean and president
provided they take the initiative
to make their views heard," he
said. Neither the president or
dean have voting power, so they
are members ex-officio, as the
student representatives are.
Another way Bethel is unique
from other schools in student in-put
is in student-faculty commit-tees.
Students on these commit-tees
are able to have a voice in ad-ministrative
decisions.
Senate, however, is the official
organization that is recognized by
the administration as a liaison bet-ween
students and administra-tors.
Paul 8attige, junior senator,
also feels Senate has been effec-tive
in representing the students.
"Senate has done what it could
as far as representing the students
to the administration," he said.
He added that administrators
have to "be open to us, and in the
case of the flat fee structure, they
were open too late," althOugh
they are usually receptive to
Senate ideas.
Steve claimed that the flat fee
issue actually has given Senate
more credibility. "The input we
have in the future will be greater,"
he said. The administration, he
said, realizes the importance of
Senate and student input through
the flat fee issue.
Tad Johnson and Mark Carl-son,
president and vice president
of the Student Assoication, ex-plained
why they believe Senate
has been effective this year. Ex-amples
of its effectiveness ranged
from the institution of the activity
fee for the Campus Coordinators
to Senate's involvement with the
sale of old campus, which includ-ed
writing letters, circulating
petitons, and actually talking to
the governor's aid.
As far as Senate's effectiveness
Coordination
in representing the students,
Mark said, "Student Senate has as
much authority as the students
want to give to it—we can't con-tinually
be brainstorming." He
added that one needed to be real-istic
about Senate's purpose,
which is not to be a power
organization.
"We don't have the final say (on
major policy issues)," Mark
noted. "Most things need ad-ministrative
approval." However,
the administration does not make
decisions in regard to how the
$40,000 budget alloted to Senate
should be spent.
According to Paul and Steve,
students need to believe in the ef-fectiveness
of Senate. They
pointed out that they do their best
to represent the student, and that
students do not realize all the
responsibilities of a senator.
"Kids can't judge (Senate) not
knowing what's going on," Steve
said. It's hard, he claimed, to
represent a student body which is
basically apathetic. He and Paul
encourage students to have an in-put
by becoming involved on
student-faculty committees, at-tending
the senate meetings, and
answering Senate surveys.
Plus
by Shelly Nielsen
"Welcome to Bethel College.
Thisisachristianlearningcom-munity.
Bethelispeople. We're
pleased you could visit us for a
few hours today and hope, as
parents of prospective students,
you'll—Sir...yes, you with the
tatoo...Put out that cigarette,
please—enjoy this tour and orien-tation
talk.
"We also pray fervently the
Lord will lead you to enroll your
son or daughter here next year or
at least to make annual tax deduc-table
contributions to Bethel.
"I'll be showing you the places
of interest at this fouryear-liberalartscollege.
This is the
cafeteria and here you see the
coffee shop. That about wraps up
our tour. Any questions?
"Yes, Bethel offers numerous
forms of social activity. Frankly,
we've found that one of the
hardest adjustments students
must make is in this area of enter-tainment.
"The outside world is a jungle.
Most have slipped into the slack
and slimy secular mode. I don't
enjoy saying this, but I must:
Every one of your children has
probably, at one time or another
danced.
"Don't despair! Bethel prides
itself on rehabilitory techniques.
Send your slip-sliders to us and
we'll have them back on the
straight and narrow in a matter of
a few weeks. Satan-controlled
wills must be broken slowly.
"Bethel has stumbled onto the
perfect solution, the pacifier for
dance-hungry students. Once
they've experienced the treat of
the 12:00 to 2:00 all-school skate
they'll never lust after worldly
allures again.
"The rink is of the most respec-table
located near campus. Its at-mosphere
offers room for Chris-tian
growth and will be an ex-cellent
spiritual learning location
for your son or daughter.
"An extremely flexible dress
code allows many diverse types of
students to attend the function.
For men anything from velvet
tuxes to bermuda shorts are ac-ceptable.
Women are expected to
dress modestly. Hems, however,
must be at least Ph" from the
floor. Corsages must be fastened
securely enough to prevent their
falling off and causing massive
collisions on the area.
"Not only does skating simulate
the excitement of the big high
school bash, it also offers popular
music to skate to. Fleetwood
Mac, Linda Ronstadt, and the
Bee Gees croon over sensitive
loud speakers. No Junior Prom
presents participants with the op-portunity
of listening to such a
variety of big name entertainers
for the minimal price of $1.25.
"Every personality has some
form of expression at the roller
skating rink. The romantic may
enjoy the bold yet constructive
impetuosity of an unrehearsed
couples skate. What more
wholesomely dreamy setting than
that of a strobe-lit roller skating
rink as one glides gracefully,
tightly clasping the hand of some
magical individual?
"For the more rebellious and
carnal skater there's the
therapeutic Snowball. Can Junior
Prom compete with the mystery
and excitement of never knowing
for sure who or what one will be
skating with next? Uncertain
skaters may choose to sit on the
ledges during this event and look
aloof but available.
"After-skating socializing is
unreproachably pure. Parents in-tent
on finding suitable matches
for their offspring will be relieved
to hear that excepting only Nik
Dag dates, more couples fall in
love over early-morning plates of
hash browns at the Flameburger.
"To conclude this brief orienta-tion
to Bethel, I'd like to talk with
you for a moment about another
important aspect of the college.
Perhaps you've heard of flat rate
tuition..."
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by David Shelley
Since the day Bethel allowed dating Bethel guys have lamented over
the various excuses girls give for not going on a date (though only a
minority of Bethel guys have experience from which to speak).
Nevertheless, excuses are as time-honored a tradition as dating, and I
consulted three female RAs who helped me compile a list of favorite
excuses for not going on a date, so that girls may add them to their
repertoire, and guys may develop striking comebacks. Here is the com-pilation:
My RA told me not to date Bethel guys.
I'm in a position right now where I wouldn't feel comfortable saying
yes.
I have to clean the scum out of the tub that night.
I'm going to be sick.
I have to wash my hair.
I have to frost and tip my hair.
I have to attend to each one of my split ends individually.
I have the gift of celebacy.
I haven't had my devotions yet.
I have to refill my down vest.
I just broke our mirror and decided to stay inside.
I'm expecting a call from my mother.
I'm expecting somebody else to ask me.
I don't have any clean socks.
It's against my religion.
I thought dating' was against the Bethel lifestyle.
All my ancestors went insane when they turned 23.
I eat a lot.
I turn into a pumpkin at midnight.
I turn into a werewolf at midnight.
I turn into a bore almost immediately.
I'm on a steak and lobster diet.
I'm reading "Asher Lev."
Nobody ever asks me on a second date.
I'm giving dating up for Lent.
I already had a date this month.
I have to practice my autoharp.
Our townhouse is having a quilting bee.
I'll have to ask my mother first.
My mother told me never to go out with strangers and you're the
strangest.
I have to do my Sunday school lesson.
I have to sit up with a sick friend.
That's bath night.
I'm not very fun to be with.
You must have the wrong person.
You're not very fun to be with.
There are tornado warnings out.
I'll go if you can get a date for my roommate. She's 5-foot-3 and 340
pounds, but she's tons of fun.
My roommate has mono.
I have mono.
I hear rumors that you have mono.
Dating hinders normal degree progress.
I'm retaking the MMPI.
I never go out on the first date.
Events Calendar Friday, Mar. 3 "Moods in the gymnasium
(8 p.m.)
"All My Sons" in the experimen-tal
theatre (8 p.m.)
Saturday, Mar. 4
Sunday, Mar. 5
"All My Sons" in the experimen-tal
theatre (8 p.m.)
Men's basketball vs. St. Thomas
(7:30 p.m.)
"St. Paul" performed by the Col-lege
Choir at Mt. Olivet Luthern
Church (7 p.m.)
Monday, Mar. 6 Clarion writer's meeting (5 p.m.)
Tuesday, Mar. 7 "All My Sons" in the experimen-tal
theatre (8 p.m.)
Student Senate meeting in AC
lounge (6 p.m.)
Wednesday, Mar. 8 "All My Sons" in experimental
theatre (8 p.m.)
Thursday, Mar. 9 "All My Sons" in experimental
theatre (8 p.m.)
Ferrante and Teicher at Or-chestra
Hall (8 p.m.)
by Holly Schmiess
"The active supporters and the
active opponents are the vocal
minorities here, but the largest
number of neighbors don't care
one way or another," said Tom
Baldwin, a member of the Bethel
Neighborhood Organization, a
group of old campus homeowners
who support situating Job Corps
there.
"If you light a match, this com-munity
would explode," said Dan
Carlson, spokesman for the
Como-Falcon Heights Communi-ty
Coalition, Inc., an active group
of Job Corps opponents.
So begin the vastly different
perceptions of two groups on one
situation—a vocational school for
- poor juvenile minority members,
in a residential area. There are
many other differences.
The coalition is an incorpor-ated
group of opponents seeking
legal means to stop the center at
Bethel. They are high-profile and
vocal. The Bethel Neighborhood
Organization is not incorporated
and exists as an alternative.
"We're not setting up two oppos-ing
camps to fight it out," said
BNO member Tom Rush.
When the coalition makes a
move, especially in publicity tac-tics,
the BNO responds to counter
information they call "inaccurate
and not at all balanced by any
stretch of the imagination."
Safety is the key issue. Will it
be safe? "Yes," says the BNO;
"No," says the coalition. At the
heart of those answers are differ-ent
understandings of Job Corps
students—who will they be?
"The majority of the kids will
be placed by the court," said
Nord. The coalition feels Per-pich's
demand to exclude felons is
meaningless since a juvenile may
commit felon acts that are not
classified as such, citing cases
where rape was excused as mis-conduct.
However, Tom Rush of the
BNO said 80 to 90 per cent of the
students will have had only minor
contact, or none, with the law.
Felons who are admitted will have
probably been convicted of car
theft. "But a 17-year who's stolen
a car once is not the same as a
45-year-old felon," said Baldwin,
who teaches disaffected youths,
Coalition member Donna
Carlson, who has a degree in
criminology, objects to the Job
Corps from a professional stand-point.
She believes the proposed
ratio of staff and faculty to
students will not be adequate.
"If every kid were a felon, I
could see that," said Baldwin.
"But if less than 20 per cent have
had serious contact with the law,
140 adults will be effective."
Both groups have researched
some of the 60 Job Corps Centers
in other communities across the
United States. The coalition said
they haven't found one successful
relationship between the
neighbors and the 30 centers con-tacted.
They've collected stacks
of newspaper clippings reporting
rapes, murders, and thefts. Other
centers, they contend, are so
rurally-situated there is no com-munity
to affect.
"Sure there are some pro-blems,"
said Rush, "out of 540,000
Job Corps students in the country,
there may be 10 per cent who
cause trouble. But there are a lot
of good things happening."
The BNO cites accounts of
corps trainees helping in floods,
playing with neighborhood child-ren,
assisting senior citizens, but
feels that a case by case exchange
is not productive, and only clouds
the issue, which they say is a
moral one.
"Coalition arguments are all
smokescrrens for what is simple
prejudice against poor or black
juveniles," said Baldwin. "Saying
that just because we can afford
$50,000 homes we have a right to
exclude people from our neigh-borhood
is about as moral as the
system where, if you were rich,
you could buy your son out of the
war."
The Bethel Neighborhood Or-ganization
says families around
old campus should be "afforded
every protective device," but
shouldn't require "unnatural con-trols
we can't enforce in the
neighborhood now."
"We have a lot of kids with
juvenile records running around
our neighborhood with less super-vision
than there would be under
Job Corps," said Baldwin. "The
coalition is making unreasonable
limits on the kinds of kids who
can enroll. Pretty soon you end
up excluding the people who need
it most." ,
The coalition on the other hand
feels it's clearly a legal issue. They
claim negligence of Job Corps
regulations in the applications
procedure last May, a premature
approval by Governor Perpich,
and violation of residential zoning
laws. They're demanding an envi-ronmental
impact study, then
court appeals if all else fails.
Last week they were granted a
temporary restraining order,
when a Labor Department repre-sentative
failed to defend the
Corps' viability in the face of the
coalition's objections.
Coalition members feel duped
by Governor Perpich, because of
his unfulfilled promise to demon-strate
a successful Job Corps in an
identical neighborhood. He in-vited
coalition members along on
his search, but then went private-ly
to Phoenix, where the Job
Corps director advised him
against situating a similar center
in a residential area.
Perpich, they claim, hushed up
that advice. Shortly afterward, he
approved the Job Corps.
Rush thinks the coalition's de-mand
for proof of a working Job
Corps in an identical neighbor-hood
is unrealistic and nebulous.
"What is identical? Is having
houses on one side, bordering
Health-science majors lead a
very complicated life. Not only
must they schedule their studying
around a multitude of labs, but
after they have finished their stint
of martyrdom, they must apply to
another school for further educa-tion.
The student then opens a
Pandora's box of MCAT's,
DSAT's, MCAS's, applications in-terviews
and re-applications. To
wallow through the paperwork
and red tape makes many
wonder, "Have we missed
something?"
On Tuesday, March 7, the
Health-Careers Committee is
hosting a _banquet where profes-sionals
will be on hand to answer
questions about post-graduate
training. The meal costs only
$1.00 and starts at 5:30 p.m.
Students will be seated according
to their interests (pre-med, pre--
dent, pre-vet, med-tech,nursing).
Dr. Gerald Needham, director
of Mayo Medical School, will be
giving the evening's address.
Following Dr. Needham's
remarks, students have the op-portunity
to hear professionals
discuss "What are the qualities of
a professional in your field?" and
"What are the qualities of a Chris-tian
in your field?"
A time of open questions for
the professionals will follow the
discussion. Bethel alumni who
have ventured into these profes-sions
have also been invited to
come and share what they see as
being important preparation.
For more information concern-ing
registration please contact
either Tim Bont (341) or Mike
Messer (1006).
Certainly the time to be inform-ed
is now. We strongly encourage
all students interested in health-science
occupations to attend.
Neighbors miles apart over Corps '
settlement in old campus facilities
Health-science majors urged
to attend informative banquet
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Lee explores possibilities for decision-making
Editor's note: This is part one of a
two part series with David Lee on
organizational communications at
Bethel College. David Lee is
assistant professor of speech and
head debate coach at Bethel. He
is a doctoral candidate in organi-zational
communications at the
University of Minnesota. During
the academic year 1968-69, Dave
was student body president at
Whitworth College in Spokane,
Wash. A consultant in communi-cations
for 3M Company and
Honeywell, he conducts seminars
for other local organizations on
how to improve communication
for both the good of the organi-zation
and the individuals within
it. The Clarion talked with Mr.
Lee last week about Bethel's
strengths and weaknesses in
communication, with the recent
flat fee decision as a point of
departure.
Clarion: What are some basic
principles of good organizational
communications?
Lee: We could talk about them
for several days. One basic func-tion
of good communication is
orientation—letting people know
what's happening. In a college,
the most important source of
information for students is in-structors.
To just dump a decision
like that (the fee structure) on the
college, with faculty members as
uninformed, if not more so than
students, is really a disservice to
the institution. The administra-tors
seem to show a definite lack
of awareness of how to go about
meeting that need.
Clarion: Those are your senti-ments
as a teacher here. What
about your professional analysis
of the way it was decided?
Lee: I look at it in terms of it's
effect on the organization. By that
I mean the balance between the
organization's need for growth
and survival, and the individual's
needs within the organization.
There is a constant healthy ten-sion
there. When you're dealing
with important change, it's good
policy to explore both sets of
needs as thoroughly as possible.
The communication policies of the
college do not reflect a balance
between the organizational needs
and individual needs.
Clarion: Is study of 'empirical
data' a substitute for examining
those personal needs you speak
of?
Lee: I can't imagine that those
data are that conclusive. And I'd
like to see when that data was
collected, because increasingly
the emphasis in higher education
is on life-long study, career-development.
A good friend of mine, Dr.
Harold Miller, dean of continuing
education at the University of
Minnesota, is a fine Christian
layman, and also a fine educa-tional
administrator. Time after
time in personal conversations,
Dr. Miller says the movement of
our future will certainly be con-tinuing
life-long education.
A question he poses to Chris-tian
liberal arts colleges, as a
Christian layman and as a pro-fessional
administrator, is
whether Christian institutions will
look at those changes and adapt
their programs accordingly.
Based on what he says and
reading I have done, it seems the
move at Bethel is contrary to what
is going to be the trend in higher
education. I question it on that
basis alone, in addition to the fact
that I would doubt very much
whether the evidence is con-clusively
in favor of the full-time
student.
Clarion: The University of Min-nesota
is going to a per credit
billing system, isn't it? Is
that to regain part-time students?
Lee: I think they're interested
in other kinds of issues. Bringing
back the organization's vs. in-dividual
needs, I've been com-plimentary
of the fee structure at
Bethel because it reflects concern
for the individual student. This is
the first college I've been where
the fee structure has been
oriented for the student.
Another perspective I have is
as debate coach. People who work
intensively in our program are
benefited greatly by being able to
take only three courses. They
spend from fifteen to thirty hours
a week researching in the fall
term. That will affect only four or
five students, but students none-theless
who are contributing in an
effective way to the college
program.
Academically we've been put
on the map by such programs the
last three years. Now our de-baters
are having to readjust their
planning, perhaps cutting them
out of our program because, when
they'll have to pay full tuition,
they can't afford to not work, and
if they have to work, they don't
have time for debate.
Clarion: You mentioned orien-tation
as an important function of
good communication within an
institution like Bethel. What's
another? .
Lee: Decision-making. Com-munication
is basic to decision-making.
Good decision-making in
an organization will utilize a
range of leadership styles some-where
between autocratic and
democratic.
People in administration tend
to think of those two extremes as
the only options. Usually both are
unacceptable. But between, there
are other options available, parti-cularly
persuasive, consultative,
and participative.
Clarion: What is persuasive
decision-making?
Lee: The administration would
have fairly clearly in mind what
they'd like to do; but before
they'd implement the policy,
they'd say, "Hey, this is what
we'd like to do," and then try to
persuade the relevant organi-zational
members to going along
with it.
Last fall, Bethel's administra-tion
could have done that with the
new fee system—sent up a trial
balloon, saying "We want to go
this route, and here are the
reasons we should." Then four
months later, they could have
decided whether their persuasion
was successful.
The policy's implementation is
not contingent upon that success,
but at least the agenda is clear.
And neither are they saying
"We're going to try to convince
you, but will implement the
change anyway." That would be
autocratic, not persuasive.
Clarion: What do you mean by
`consultative' method of decision-making?
Lee: That occurs when the
administration has a specific pro-posal
to make. It's taken to
representative groups—student
members, staff, and faculty—with
a request: "This is the policy
we'd like to change, and here's
our proposal. Will you give us
some feedback?"
If I had been the dean I may not
have wanted those groups to
become committed to a certain
policy. In that case I would have
said, "After three months, give
me two good options, quite
different from one another, that
might answer this problem."
That's consultative, where I
would set the agenda, clearly
define my wishes, and give a
couple months to work on it.
Communication is still fairly con-trolled,
but the agenda is open,
and participation is permitted
back and forth.
Clarion: And finally, 'partici-pative?'
Lee: Representatives from
faculty, staff, and students actu-ally
participate in the decision. If I
were dean, I may come in advo-cating
my option, but I'm also
open to be persuaded myself.
So it's really a participation
back and forth even though I
realize I must, because of the
position I'm in, reserve the
decision. I'm open with my
agenda, wanting to get fully as
much input as possible from you.
We might talk about it two
hours a week for the next several
months. Then I take that input,
combine it with that of other key
administrators, and make the
decision. But the groups involved
at least know the considerations,
are aware of the obstacles to the
other options, and know why the
chosen option is preferable.
Clarion: There have been ele-ments
of those methods in the
flat-fee decision. There had been
some input from student leaders;
by Thangi Chhangte
Currently, there are 24 legal
aliens and approximately 53 mis-sionary
kids (MKs) studying at
Bethel. They are the ones that
make up part of the International
Students Association (I. S.A.).
Mrs. Marilyn Bohne started the
organization in 1970. Her aim was
to help foreign students with im-migration,
finances, and some-times,
understanding professors.
She was Bethel's first ISA advisor.
In 1975, Mrs. Bohne left Bethel
and Dr. David Sperry, professor
of anthropology, became the next
advisor. Then in 1976, William
(Wink) Menser, dean of men,
agreed to become an ISA advisor
since Dr. Sperry was not able to.
Officers are elected every year
and they are responsible for
organizing and planning ac-tivities.
This year, Taye Bir-machu,
sophomore, is the presi-dent
of the association, and Steve
Schwarze, junior, is the vice
president.
The other officers are: Lalrin-what
about that?
Lee: Let me say this: for good
communication to occur in an
organization, and to contribute to
the morale of the organization's
climate, communication must not
only be open, it must also appear
to be open. I'm not talking about
faking it when it isn't actually
occurring. I'm saying good com-munication
must be visible to
help either image—student's or
administration's.
Clarion: How can that be done?
Lee: If the personal com-munication
styles of key admini-strators
make those people seem
unapproachable, they need to
build in mechanisms so they
can get feedback. Some way that
protects the source—either hav-ing
it sent anonymously, or
through some other person who
represents the students or
faculty.
There should be a specific
person, available and visible, for
administrators to get that feed-back
from, if they feel somewhat
intimidated themselves. That's a
problem for some administrators
here, as it is in a way for all of us.
But if you're in administration,
you're in a more critical position.
Clarion: What happens when
an 'agenda' is supposedly esta-blished,
as indicated by the
deans' promise to provide time
for student input on the flat
fee, but is then canceled, and the
decision accelerates from the
infancy stage to finality?
Lee: That's a legitimate ques-tion.
In the infancy stages, you're
trying to pose a good question. If
that's the position they were in
fine; they needed to make sure of
a clear question to raise. But once
that's formulated, you want to get
people involved. If you set up a
procedure whereby people get
used to participating, they don't
puii Chhangte, secretary and
treasurer; Karen Swanson, social
chairman. Wink Menser is the
ISA adviser this year, also.
ISAers meet about once or
twice a month to share foods,
music and slides of foreign coun-tries.
They also have a gym night
once every month. And in winter,
ISAers go sliding and inner-tubing
on Mt. Zion.
Once every year, the ISA hosts
a banquet which is also open to
the public. This year's banquet
was held on Feb. 3, and tickets
respond with panic or shock when
something is initiated.
Clarion: Does it seem to you
that the administration lacks
built-in challengers; are there too
many `yes-men?'
Lee: My dissertation is in
organizational conflict, and one
thing is very clear—conflict is a
healthy and good source of input
and stimulus for the organization
if handled and managed properly.
The problem is that many people
in positions of administration are
not trained at all in managing
conflict, keeping it at a positive
level.
I would be very careful in
attributing a negative motive to
someone's actions, but would
instead presume that it grows
primarily out of ignorance, an
ignorance of what good organi-zational
policy is.
Clarion: You were impressed
with Carter's campaign because
of his built in advisors whom he
knew would conflict with his
opinions, weren't you?
Lee: And I think you can build
in either consultative, or more
preferable, participative man-agement,
that will allow you to
examine all the alternatives as
thoroughly as possible, and the
various costs and benefits.
Dean Brushaber does send out
what he calls "trial balloons." I
have a list of thirty from last fall.
Some we haven't followed
through on, others we've dis-cussed.
Clarion: How is that method
inadequate?
Lee: I don't think it is. But they
aren't sent out on critical matters.
I think they're sent out on rather
peripheral matters, and matters
relative to the faculty, but not to
the students.
were sold out a week before. The
theme for the evening was "Praise
the Lord All Ye Lands."
Another banquet will be held
on March 11, due to popular de-mand.
The program will be
similar to the first banquet, but
the menu will be different.
Tickets are three dollars for
students and $3.50 for adults.
ISA members encourage Be-thel
students and friends to go to
the banquet, not just for the ex-otic
food but also for cultural en-counters
of the best kind.
ISA provides foreign student
aid, understanding, activities
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Stuart Briscoe, author, lecturer, challenged Tuesday's
chapel audience to know God as Lord.
Mike Emerson and Scott Larson take time to savor their
debate team's fine showing at the past weekend tourna-ment
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Christian supper club lacks polish
retains novelty to evangelicals
by Dale Peterson
Up until this year, if one
wanted to spend an evening hav-ing
dinner in a restaurant where
the waiters are Christians and no
liquor is served, and then see a
play directed by Doug Briggs,
one's only choice would have
been the Royal Oak Room and
the experimental theatre at Bethel
College. Now, thanks to Herald's
Christian Supper Club, it isn't that
way anymore.
On New Year's Eve, opening
night, club owner Harold Vogel
had to turn away over 100 would-be
customers. It seemed obvious
then, that a supper club of this
kind was just what suburban
evangelicals were waiting for.
Herald's is one of but a handful
of Christian supper clubs in
America. Its uniqueness was
underscored recently by NBC
television, which found the idea
of a Christian supper club
newsworthy enough to be
featured on the Today Show.
The food at Herald's is certain-ly
worthy of at least local recogni-tion.
The featured item, which
was supposed to be thinly sliced
beef, was really a generous slice
of top grade sirloin covered with a
delectable mixture of
mushrooms, onions and other
vegetables.
The filet mignon, while at least
two ounces smaller than other
supper club's filets, is as savory
as any. Both meats were broiled
precisely to order and the service
was prompt and courteous.
"The Fable of the Brementown
Four," a play written by Doug
Briggs and performed by
members of "In the Spirit
Ministries" was the entertainment
for the evening. The play has
been performed at various chur-ches
in the area over the past few
years, however, the performance
at Herald's was the first in over 14
months.
The players were vivacious and
exciting and their movements
were precise. The songs that the
players sang before and after the
show were well done and the
selection was appropriate.
Viewed separately, both the
dinner and the performance
would gain the approval of any
guest, but the synthesis of the two
was indeed poor.
The play was introduced by the
restaurant hostess, who possessed
all the self-confidence and stage
presence of a third grader ner-vously
announcing a Christmas
play.
Her preparation did not even
include learning the name of the
group she was to introduce! (She
had to obviously refer to her note
card after an uncomfortable
pause). Such behavior may be
tolerable for a third grader, but is
absolutely inexcusable for the
emcee of a sppper club.
This disrespect for the perfor-mance
was shared by the
waitresses as well. For some
unknown reason they found it
necessary to bus the dishes during
the performance.
Judging by the fact that there
were no programs and our menu
suggested non-alcoholic drinks to
enjoy during the "inspirational
concert" I would say that Herald's
was unprepared, at least, to host a
dramatic presentation.
While Herald's may be a God-send
for Christians in Edina, I
would still recommend the Royal
Oak Room and the experimental
theatre for Bethel College
students.
Lynn Erickson, from
Chisholm, Minn., will be
presenting her senior
trumpet recital Monday,
March 8 at 8 p.m. in the
Bethel Seminary chapel.
Lynn is a senior music ma-jor
and is studying with
Charles Schlueter, prin-cipal
trumpet of the Min-nesota
Orchestra.
Program selections in-clude
pieces by Honneger,
Hindemith, Scarlatti and
Hummel.
The music department
extends an invitation to the
Bethel community to at-tend
this recital and also
the reception following.
There is no admission
charge.
debate
Debate team
despite stiff
by David Terpstra
Amid some tough competition
this past weekend, the Bethel
College debate team placed
fourth out of 46 schools compet-ing
at the University of Nebraska
in Lincoln. The novice, junior,
and varsity squads all went 3-3 in
their individual team efforts.
David Lee, the debate advisor,
remarked that "the main problem
was the tough competition we en-countered
at this meet." He fur-ther
stressed that Bethel does
have "some really good peo-ple.
But when we run up against
the various large universities, the
competition becomes more diffi-cult."
Individually, two persons did
very well. Ira King placed second
in oratory and fourth in oral inter-pretation,
while Pam Linamen
missed the finals by one point.
places fourth
competition
Their advisor seems optimistic re-garding
the team's chances in fu-ture
competition.
The team basically uses two
techniques in their practice ses-sions.
One method includes hold-ing
practice debate rounds while
the coaches offer advice and feed-back
to them. The second method
is where the individual teams take
their proposals and look at them
from the opposite team's stand-point,
thereby gaining fresh in-sight
into the issue.
This weekend, the debate team
will compete at the University of
Wisconsin in Whitewater. Later
on. Coach Bill Fraatz and team
Scott Larson-Mike Emerson will
go to the University of Southern
Connecticut. After that, the
district competition begins the
third week in March, and the na-tionals
begin the first week in
April.
Chapel Schedule
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mini-hymn festival
Tuesday — Senate candi-date
speeches
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A familiar sight for the last four years; Cindy Martin drib-bling
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Former Iowa stars
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end Royal careers
on positive note
by Greg Kuntz
The state of Iowa has been
known for a long time (besides
corn fields) for their brand of fe-male
basketball. Two of them, se-niors
Gail Anderson, a 5'6"
guard/forward from Shell Rock,
and Cindy "C.M." Martin, a
5'7" forward from Lisbon, re-flected
recently on their past four
years on the squad at Bethel.
Bethel ended this competitive
season with an 11-7, record.
Gail was the scrapper on the
squad this season driving to the
basket on several occasions and
came up with several steals on
defense. She probably handled
the ball more than anyone.
"This season I worked a lot on
driving and my outside shot," she
said.
Cindy, known as "C.M.", end-ed
up as one of the Royals'
leading scorers, in spite of her ill-ness
and injuries through part of
this season.
"Kathy (the coach) always told
us that it can be done and you can
do it, so I always tried to remem-ber
that when I was in the game,"
she said.
Both acknowledged that they
have greatly enjoyed the unity of
the team.
Gail said, "In four years of col-lege
ball I've experienced a spe-cial
unity on the team; the kind
we all have in Christ. There's
been a real sense of caring among
individuals."
"I've learned that I can't do it
myself—I need to rely on Christ,"
said Cindy.
continued from page 4
three sides, or a fair ground
across the street?" he asked.
The BNO says Crystal Springs,
Miss., and San Jose, Calif. are
residential sites similar to Falcon
Heights, with houses across the
street.
Baldwin adds that the Falcon
Heights community is really only
50 per cent residential by area,
and lists the businesses in a one-mile
radius: "A major university
campus, three shopping centers,
an enormous housing develop-ment
for students, five
warehouses, a bus garage, a ma-jor
railroad switching yard,
experimental farmland, and two
golf courses. That's not residen-tial."
The coalition says the business-es
that now exist will suffer.
"Lido's" has threatened to relocate
if the center moves in, they claim,
and inferior businesses such as a
foosball arcade will cater to
juveniles. Prospective home-buyers
have shied away, also,
because of the imminent new in-stitution.
The BNO says the coaltion has
brought these penalties upon
themselves through scare tactics
such as a circular that begins, "If
you have a weak heart, don't read
on.
The two groups have never had
head-on exchange. Rush feels the
coalition disbelieves any sources
of information except themselves
(including Bethel and the Labor
Department), and that negates at-tempts
at open-minded discus-sion.
"We don't have the right to pro-tect
our investments, whether
they be businesses or our homes,
at the cost of suppressing other
people," said Baldwin.
"That's the cost of civilization,"
he added. "This isn't Black Dtick,
Minn.; it's St. Paul. This is a big
city, and a big city needs to use all
it's resources to help it's people.
We have that resource."
Institute seminar
seeks to promote
growth in maturity
A group of 1100, primarily
composed of students, will attend
the month-long 1978 Institute on
Discipleship and Apologetics this
summer.
The institute, featuring some of
the nation's leading spokesmen
on the vital subjects of Christian
disciple building and apoligetics,
will be held at Western Kentucky
University, Bowling Green, June
11 - July 8.
The objective of the con-ference
is to balance an
understanding of the certainty of
Christian truth with an orderly
and loving approach to making
disciples. It seeks to promote
growth in maturity and
knowledge while helping Chris-tians
give intellectual answers in
love.
Participants include noted
theologian Carl F.H. Henry and
Professors Roger Nicole of
Gordon-Conwell Seminary; Gary
Collins and Norman Geisler of
Trintiy Evangelical Divintiy
School, Howard Hendricks of
Dallas Seminary and Donald Chit-tick
of George Fox College.
Jim Williams of Probe
Ministries, Josh McDowell of
Campus Crusade, Ray Stedman of
Peninsula Bible Church, Palo
Alto, CA and Carl W. Wilson,
president of Worldwide
Discipleship Association com-plete
the slate.
The institute is sponsored by
the Atlanta-based Worldwide
Discipleship Association in
cooperation with Western Ken-by
Greg Kuntz
The Royals lost an early seven-point
lead as St. Thomas, using a
fast break, tallied a 79-65 victory
at O'Shaughnessy Hall last Satur-day
afternoon. Sophomore for-ward
Scott Kajer led in scoring
with 23 points and freshman
center Bob Walsh added 17 for
the second place Tommies.
"Sugar Ray" Miller was once
again high-point man for the
Royals with 16, and junior guard
Greg Peterson had his highest
scoring game of the season with
14.
St. Thomas turned around the
early deficit when Bethel was in
command to take a 29-20 lead, but
tucky University. The four-week
conference is divided into two-week
segments, each stressing the
dual theme of personal
discipleship and disciple building
and biblical apologetics.
The format is geared for
students, seminarians, pastors
then the Royals again began to
turn on and closed the gap to
three with just over two minutes
to go in the first half.
The Royals were plagued by
turnovers in the second half and
were down quickly by nine. The
Tommies man-to-man defense
coupled with some sparkling fast
breaks built the lead to 13 about
midway through the half.
No one fouled out in the con-test,
but the Royals were whistled
for 17 team fouls to St. Thomas'
10.
Tommies' Coach Tom Feely,
now in his 24th season, said,
"Our four corner and diamond of-fense
opened things up and when
our guards got our fast break
going, that broke the game open
and lay workers, with three
semester-hours of credit being of-fered
by the university.
Anyone desiring information
locally should contact:
Worldwide Discipleship Associa-tion
1001 Virginia Ave., Suite
315, Atlanta, GA. 30354.
for us."
St. Thomas has high hopes for
the post-season playoffs, but
Coach Feely thought it would be
unlikely to catch St. John's for the
MIAC title.
Bethel closes the 1977-78 sea-son
at home tomorrow afternoon
when they meet St. Thomas
again. The tip-off time is 3 p.m.
"Bethel has a nice shooting
ball club and they'll give us prob-lems
when we go over there,"
said Coach Feely.
Tommies turn back cagers with
second half scoring spurt, 79-65
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T.K. pins too confident Tommy's shot while Curt Oslin looks on.
Pre-season favorite 'Probes'
remains undefeated in IM action
Hockey club drops season
finale to St. Olaf, 6-4
by Steve Erickson
Bethel ended its hockey season
last Friday on a sour note, falling
to St. Olaf 6-4. The club finished
with a 10-8 mark.
The game was a physical one,
with each team spending its share
of time in the penalty box. St.
Olaf incurred 40 minutes of
penalties while Bethel had 30.
St. Olaf broke the game open
with a pair of goals midway
through the second period. Bill
Lynch knocked in a rebound at
12:00. Ninety seconds later Dave
Ario stole the puck and drilled it
past goalie George Fraser to
make it 4-2 St. Olaf. Ario had
four goals for the night.
Gregg Correll narrowed the
score to 4-3 on a shot from the
slot. Two more goals by Ario and
one by Bethel's Tom Correll
finished the scoring. Tom Correll
led the Royals with two goals and
one assist.
Bethel, outshot 32-26, was not
as deep as St. Olaf, thus, tiring
more easily. Bethel Coach Dave
Harris said, "We had a lot of
penalties so our first line was on
the ice a .lot, killing them."
"We just didn't have the kind of
shots we needed in the end. We
couldn't catch up," said Coach
Harris.
For the season, Tom Correll
was the leading scorer. He tallied
13 goals and 14 assists for 27
points. Fred Hage had 17 goals
and 3 assists. Third leading scorer
was John Selvog who was credited
with 7 goals and 10 assists.
A Bethel Hockey player attempts to elude his St. Olaf shadow.
The Family' outshoots 'Curls'
for broomball championships
by Rob Haglund
Pre-season favorite Probes-
Chapter Two kept their
unblemished record intact with a
67-56 win over Who Cares in re-cent
IM basketball action. Greg
Nelson led Probes with 25 points
while Dave Mild tossed in 15 for
the losers.
In other games, Steve Kramka
scored 15 points, 13 in the second
half, to lead Weightroom
Woosies to a 57-44 win over Doc's
and Joc's. Scott Engstrom led the
Joc's with 12 markers. The
Rotors, behind Chester Mont-gomery's
18 points edged Beef
Jerky 40-36. Jay Alvin added 17
points for the winners.
In B league action Arnel Oil
bombed Jack's Rabbits 68-34.
Tim Trout poured home 35 points
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for the winners to lead IM scoring
this week while Dave Johnson
canned 11 for the Rabbits.
Rick Alvarez and Ron Hanson
hooped 14 points apiece as the
Not Ready For B League Players
zapped Star Wars 43-35. Star
Wars' Dave Christiansen led all
scorers with 19 points.
NBA dumped the 5 per centers
34-29 behind Steve Carrigan's 24
points and 6 Feet Under mugged
All The President's Men 74-41
with Dave Fernland scoring 27
points for the winners.
NHS topped the Bengals 51-27
with newly-acquired transfer Brad
Staurseth canning 14 markers.
The Bengals' Jim Skoglund drop-ped
in 14 points also.
IM games have been drawing
some nice crowds. If you haven't
been to a game yet, you might
want to stop by the gym and
watch the fast-paced action. In A
league action tomorrow Doc's
and Joc's and the Buckwheats
square off at noon.
Probes takes on True Grunt
and Who Cares meets The Gang
at 1 p.m. tomorrow. Weightroom
Woosies will play Beef Jerky and
the Thugs and Rotors will go at it
at 2 p.m. Seven games are
featured in B league action
tomorrow morning.
The Thugs meet the Rabbits
and NHS plays ATPM at 9 a.m.
Games scheduled for 10 a.m. are
the Mob vs. the Bengals and
Bergland's Bongos vs. the 5 per
centers.
The Fly Girls will meet
NR4BLP's and Richie Vallenz Jr.
High plays Star Wars at 11 a.m.
The rumble between the NBA
and the Decomposers is schedul-ed
for noon.
by Thangi Chhangte
The co-ed broomball season
began the third week of interim.
There were eleven teams in the
broomball league. According to
Dana Olson, broomball was the
highlight of interim.
The Family, Brad Nelson's
team, won the league, followed
by freshman Molly Whiteneck's
team, The Washling Festivalers.
The Butchers, led by Steve
Fredine, senior, were third.
For those who have no idea
what broomball is all about, here
is a brief description. Broomball
is a game played on ice, and is
similar to hockey. The object of
the game is to get a deflated
volleyball into the opponent's
goal, using a broom. Broomball
players wear regular shoes or
special broomball shoes.
The Family won nine out of ten
games and tied one with the
Icebreakers. The team also had
the league's highest scorer,
sophomore Peter Nelson. He
scored 10 goals.
Brad, a junior, said they had
by Lisa Mills
Senior Dave Clapp took sixth in
the nation in the 1,000-yard run at
the NAIA indoor championships
last Friday in Kansas City. His
time was 2:18.6.
Clapp became the first Bethel
student to make it through finals
at a national level. There were
originally 27 running in the 1,000,
and after three qualifying heats
only eight made it to the finals.
successful team because of their
goalie Paul Jepsen, junior, and
also because of their "determined
defense and aggressive offense."
He also praised the girls on his
team for not being afraid of being
aggressive. "Val Pasma and
Karen Stake had the most color-ful
knees," he said, refering to
their bruises. He also -com-mended
Greg Peterson and Bill
Ostlund, both juniors, for their
contribution of goals. Bill had a
hat trick (three goals) on the first
game of the season.
Brad thinks his team did well
this year, but "we're going to win
them all next season," he declared
confidently.
The Butchers beat The Curls
three to two, on Thursday, Jan.
23. It was the last game of the
season and was played with the
lights out. Paul Johnson, captain
of The Curls, thinks his team lost
because. they could not see pro-perly.
Not everyone wins. An irate
Stu Johnson challenges humble
Brad Nelson to a one to one
match with a toothpick and a life
s,.ver.
Clapp had the third fastest time
going into the final heat.
Curt Brown, also a senior,
made it to the quarter finals in the
600-yard run. Jim Timp and Nate
Allen also competed, running in
the mile and 440-yard run respec-tively.
The top three winners will be
named All-American, and fourth,
fifth, and sixth runners are con-sidered
All-American honorable
mention.
Clapp finishes sixth in
NAIA indoor track finals